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Kamada Ltd.

Kamada Ltd. is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kamada Ltd. rather than just read about it. In short: Kamada Ltd. is a global biopharmaceutical company specializing in the research, manufacturing, and commercialization of specialty pharmaceuticals derived from human plasma. The company’s portfolio includes 6 FDA-approved plasma-derived products, which are distributed in over 30 international markets.

Key takeaways

Kamada Ltd. belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
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Reproduce the core statement of Kamada Ltd. from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Kamada Ltd. is a global biopharmaceutical company specializing in the research, manufacturing, and commercialization of specialty pharmaceuticals derived from human plasma. The company’s portfolio includes 6 FDA-approved plasma-derived products, which are distributed in over 30 international markets. The company's headquarters and laboratories are located in the park of Kiryat Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. The production facility is located in Kibbutz Beit Kama, Israel. The company also has offices in the United States, located in Hoboken, New Jersey.

History Kamada was founded in 1990 by David Tzur, Ralph Hahn and Kamapharam Ltd., which was wholly owned by Kibbutz Beit Kama, until then Kamapharam was producing albumin, and its production facilities were acquired in full by Kamada In 1999, (35%) to a company owned by Hahn and another investor for $2.5 million. Hahn and Tzur headed the company by the beginning of 2013. The company completed its first public offering in 2005 on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Today, the company specializes in the development, manufacture and marketing of proteins, especially for orphan diseases. The company produces about 10 injectable and marketed drugs in more than 15 countries around the world. Kamada is a member of the Biomed index on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, and as of December 2012, its shares were included in the Tel Aviv 100 index. In 2012, the company was ranked 456 among the 500 fastest growing companies in Europe (and 15th in Israel) according to the Deloitte Index, based on their income in 2007–2011. In May 2014, the company announced that it had not met the target set for the trial for a hereditary emphysema in inhalation. Following the failure of the experiment, the company's market value fell within a year from $500 million to $150 million.

Products

Glassia: Alpha-1 Antitrypsin for infusion (AAT IV) Glassia is approved by the FDA to treat lung disease caused by alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency. The active ingredient in the drug is the protein alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT). Glassia is indicated for patients suffering from lung disease called emphysema, due to a genetic deficiency in the AAT protein. Takeda holds the license to manufacture and distribute Glassia in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, following a completed technology transfer from Kamada. Under the terms of the agreement between the companies, Kamada is entitled to royalties from Glassia sales in Takeda’s markets. In other countries where Glassia is available, Kamada partners with local distributors to sell the medicine.

Production of immunoglobulins The company has developed a technological platform for the production of specific immunoglobulins (IgG's). It produces a specific antibody against the rabies virus, and a product for the treatment of HDN – disease of the newborn hemolytic (Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn) – a disease caused from Rh negative in the fetus. The company cooperates with the Israeli Ministry of Health, in the framework of which it established a GMP standard for the production of serum against snake venom. The product is manufactured from the serum of hyper-immune horses . The company has a strategic agreement with Kedrion Pharmaceuticals for the development and marketing of the KamRab rabies immunoglobulin in the United States.

See also Economy of Israel Research and development in Israel

References

External links Kamada Ltd. – the company's website Kamada Ltd. – on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kamada Ltd.

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Kamada Ltd. claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Kamada Ltd. before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kamada Ltd. ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kamada Ltd.

In research: Kamada Ltd. appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Kamada Ltd. in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Kamada Ltd. is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies listed on the Nasdaq, Companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Israeli brands, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Kamada Ltd. outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Kamada Ltd. in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Kamada Ltd. matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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