Before we can submit an NDA to the FDA or a similar approval application to other regulatory authorities, as applicable, we (or our commercialization partner, as the case may be) must conduct one or more clinical trials that will be substantially broader than our ARREST study. We will also need to agree on a protocol with the FDA, EMA or any other regulatory authorities for any clinical trial(s) before commencing any such trial. Clinical trials frequently produce unsatisfactory results even though prior clinical trials were successful. Therefore, the results of the ARREST Study or any future clinical trials that we may conduct may or may not be successful. The applicable regulatory agencies may suspend all clinical trials or require that we conduct additional clinical, pre-clinical, manufacturing, validation or drug product quality studies and submit data from these additional studies before considering or reconsidering the NDA or similar regulatory application. Depending on the extent of these, or any other studies, approval of any applications that we submit may be delayed by several years, or may require us to expend more resources than we have available. It is also possible that additional studies, if performed and completed, may not be considered sufficient by the applicable regulatory agencies to provide regulatory approval. If any of these outcomes occur, we would not receive approval for Aramchol and may be forced to cease operations.

Section 102 of the Ordinance allows Israeli employees, directors and officers, who are not controlling shareholders to receive favorable tax treatment for compensation in the form of shares or options. However, under this route we are not allowed to deduct any expense with respect to the issuance of the options or shares. Israeli non-employee service providers, consultants and shareholders who hold 10% or more of our total share capital or are otherwise controlling shareholders, may be granted options pursuant to Section 3(i) of the Ordinance, which does not provide for similar tax benefits. In order to comply with the terms of the capital gains route pursuant to Section 102 of the Ordinance, the granted options as well as the ordinary shares issued upon exercise of these options and other shares received subsequently following any realization of rights with respect to such options (such as share dividends and share splits), must be granted to a trustee for the benefit of the relevant grantee and should be held by the trustee for at least two years after the date of the grant. If such options or shares are sold by the trustee or are transferred to the grantee before the end of the two-year period, then the grantee would be taxed at top marginal rates upon selling the shares.

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I could see CR being superior to IF in regards to total amount of mTOR activation but this is just speculation and i could see the opposite too.

Generally, under the Companies Law, the decision to distribute dividends and the amount to be distributed is made by a company’s board of directors. The Articles provide that the Board may from time to time declare, and cause the Company to pay, such dividends as may appear to it to be justified by the profits of the Company and that the Board has the authority to determine the time for payment of such dividends and the record date for determining the shareholders entitled to receive such dividends, provided the date is not before the date of the resolution to distribute the dividend. Declaration of dividends does not require shareholder approval.

ansonsaw/E+/GETTY IMAGES Continuous flow manufacturing for small-molecule drug synthesis received a vote of confidence in April 2016 when FDA approved a change from batch to continuous processing for Janssen Products’ Prezista (darunavir), a drug for the treatment of HIV-1 infection. This decision is the first such approval for a change from batch to continuous manufacturing, and the second for a continuous process; Vertex received approval in July 2015 for the continuous production of its cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi (lumacaftor/ivacaftor).

On December 30, 2013, we entered into a personal employment agreement with our controlling shareholder, Mr. Allen Baharaff who serves as our president, chief executive officer and as a member of our Board, as amended on March 15, 2016 and July 20, 2017, which provides that Mr. Baharaff’s terms of office and employment are for an undefined term, subject to re-approval under the Companies Law and termination in accordance with the terms of the employment agreement.

To test the contribution of store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) to the tumor cell–induced sustained Ca2+ signal, we used Baf A1 to deplete Ca2+ from acidic organelles, which are the Ca2+ stores responsible for tumor cell-mediated Ca2+ signals stimulated by ADPR (Fig. 4c and d). Depletion of Ca2+ stores by Baf A1 induced Ca2+ entry after Ca2+ was added to the bath perfusion solution, as described earlier36 (Fig. 5d). This SOCE was completely blocked by SK96365, a SOCE blocker, but not by ACA, a specific TRPM2 channel blocker. These findings indicate that the sustained Ca2+ signal is attributable to SOCE following Ca2+ mobilization by ADPR, and that TRPM2 is not involved in ADPR-mediated SOCE.

An additional Phase 2a, proof of concept study in patients with gallstones was halted due to poor patient recruitment and change in company focus. The primary end-point was to prove that Aramchol dissolves newly formed gallbladder gallstones following bariatric surgery. Patients were to be assigned to one of three treatment arms; 400mg tablets, 600mg tablets and placebo. Only 9 patients were enrolled, and seven patients completed the study (before it was halted). A similar proportion of subjects from each treatment group reported events; seven in the placebo group, nine in the 400 mg Aramchol group, and five in the 600 mg Aramchol group. One subject experienced two events of severe cholecystitis in the Aramchol 600 mg group which were considered a serious adverse event and led to investigational product discontinuation. It should be noted that to be included in this study the subject must have had a history of gall bladder disease and gallstones, therefore the subject’s medical history is an important confounding factor.

        Moreover, our ability to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights may be adversely affected by unforeseen changes in foreign intellectual property laws. Additionally, laws of some countries outside of the U.S. and Europe do not afford intellectual property protection to the same extent as the laws of the U.S. and Europe. Many companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual property rights in certain foreign jurisdictions. The legal systems of some countries, including India, China and other developing countries, do not favor the enforcement of patents and other intellectual property rights. This could make it difficult for us to stop the infringement of our patents or the misappropriation of our other intellectual property rights. For

“We’re continuing to investigate and take action to protect patient health and safety from products in this angiotensin II receptor blocker class that have been found to have dangerous impurities. As part of that investigation, we’ve uncovered serious manufacturing violations at ZHP, which is one of the manufacturing facilities that has been linked to these products. The issues cited in the warning letter are associated with the nitrosamine impurities found in these drugs, and these violations reveal a disturbing lack of oversight at this API manufacturer that puts patients at risk,” said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, in a press statement announcing the warning letter.