Overview of the Company Todos Medical Ltd. (“
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Todos Medical Ltd. (“Todos Medical,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” “us”), is a medical diagnostics company engaged in the development and commercialization of blood tests for the detection of immune-related diseases, beginning with cancer. Our core proprietary technology centers on testing blood cells using a Fourier-transform
infrared (“FTIR”) spectrometer to turn biological information into data, and then using our patented Total Biochemical Infrared Analysis (“TBIA”) deep learning data analytics platform to mine the data in order to develop algorithms that are indicative of the presence of cancer, and the tissue of origin in the body where the cancer is located. The TBIA detection method is based on cancer’s influence on the immune system that triggers biochemical changes in peripheral blood. The primary advantages of the TBIA platform are the high accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) and low costs of goods sold (“COGS”) due to the biological information being captured using spectroscopy versus biological antibody capture methods that require the manufacture of multiple antibodies to capture a biological signature. TBIA is based upon technology originally invented by researchers at Ben Gurion University (“BGU”) and Soroka Medical Center of Israel (“Soroka”), whose intellectual property has been licensed to us.
We have received a CE Mark in the European Union authorizing the commercial use of the TBIA platform in the diagnosis of breast cancer and colon cancer. We have been issued patents in the United States, Europe and other international jurisdictions covering the use of TBIA to detect solid tumors. We have also entered into
distribution agreements with development partners in preparation for the commercial launch of TBIA for breast cancer in Israel, Romania and Austria during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Our academic partners at BGU have also published research suggesting FTIR has the potential to be used to identify the presence of viral and bacterial infections, and the Company is currently evaluating how best to pursue its technology in these areas in light of increased commercial interest for viral detection methods in light of the recent outbreak of novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19) worldwide.
Products
Our two most advanced blood tests for cancer are for the screening and diagnosis of breast cancer. TM-B1 is our breast cancer test for the screening and diagnosis of breast cancer in all women, and TM-B2 is our breast cancer test for the screening and diagnosis of breast cancer in women who have ‘dense breasts.’ Dense breasts,
medically categorized as BI-RADS 3 and BI-RADS 4, make mammograms largely ineffective because the biophysical structure of the breast does not allow high enough resolution on the mammogram X-ray to determine whether or not a tumor is present, leading to potentially unnecessary additional imaging tests and breast biopsies in women who have dense breasts.
Additionally, our TMC blood test is for the screening and diagnosis of colon cancer.
From today's Todos F-1 filings.