Convergent R.N.R.
X-ray Focusing for Cancer Treatment
Startup Mature Health Tech & Life Sciences Est. 2010
Total Raised
$3.7M
Mature
Last Round
$3M
2 rounds
Investors
1
1 public
Team
4
11-50 employees
Confidence
92/100
News
4
articles
Patents
1
About
Convergent Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery is a medical start-up developing a new X-ray-focusing technology called MercyBeam. The companys patented technology uses a standard imaging X-ray source to form a converging beam into a volume of treatment, rather than the standard diverging one. This development is designed to render radiotherapy treatment more accurate and safe and to spare healthy organs and cells. MercyBeam introduces a lens that collects most of the X-rays emanating divergently out of any standard X-ray tube and converges themtoward the tumors location. The lens simultaneously removes low-energy photons that would be absorbed by the patients skin. The convergence increases the therapeutic dose delivered at the tumor location, while the organs in the vicinity of the tumor receive a very low dose or none at all. The converging technology enables the use of photon-energy X-rays 100 times lower than those used by current systems based on linear accelerators.
Classification
Sector
Health Tech & Life SciencesMedical DevicesMedical Treatment & Therapeutics
Core Technology
Simulation & Imaging
Target Customer
Healthcare & Life SciencesHealthcarePatientsProviders
Business Model
B2B
Tags
medical-technologiescanceroncologyx-raylensesradiologybabiesmedical-deviceshealthcare-providersnon-invasivehospitalschildrenpatientsimagingoptronicstreatmentsbioconvergence
Funding & Events
Dec 2017
Undisclosed Round $3M
Seed $700K
Office of the Chief Scientist
News (4)
Jun 11, 2017 · www.newswise.com
growth-positive
MD Anderson and Convergent R.N.R. Ltd. Establish Alliance to Further Develop New Radiation Technology with Potentially Fewer Side Effects
PartnersInvestment
Jul 31, 2014 · radiationtherapynews.com
growth-positive
Israeli Engineer Creates Lens to Reduce Risks of Radiation Therapy...
Customers
Jul 16, 2014 · www.israel21c.org
growth-positive
Radiation therapy is about to get much kinder
InvestmentExpand
Apr 2, 2014 · www.saferadiotherapy.com
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Details
Product Stage
Released
Employees
11-50
Exact Count
17
District
North District
Founded
2010
Registrar
514498443
Crunchbase
convergent-rnr
Locations
Andrei Sakharov St 9, Haifa, Israel
Links
Website
LinkedIn
Facebook
Admin
Last Update
Feb 21, 2023
Verified by
Sharon Shapira
Claimed
Yes
Missing
not claimed
Team (4)
Ze'ev Harel
Co-founder & CEO
Founder
Dr. Aharon Bar-David
Co-Founder & Chief physicist
Founder
Avigail Keller
Co-founder
Founder
Zeev Burshtein
Co-founder
Founder