With great sadness, the Lautenberg Center announces the passing of the generous donor Dana Schwartz
Eitan Yefenof wrote a few words on behalf of her memorial: “Dana Schwartz was a torch of love and affection for many circles of people who had the privilege of knowing her. She was also a dear personal friend. Condolences to the Schwartz family, the Concern Foundation family, and the many cancer scientists who benefited […]
Prof. Eli Pikarsky, Prof. Michal Baniyash, Dr. Oren Parnas and Dr. Micha Berger will be receiving the Personalized Medicine research grant!
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Prof. Rami Aqeilan has been elected to serve as the next head of the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC) Chairperson.
Studying SARS-CoV-2 at the Lautenberg Center
Dr. Oren Parnas and Dr. Yotam Drier collaborate and use their labs’ resources and advanced techniques to study the coronavirus tissue distribution during infection period, and to study the regulation of the human receptor that allows viral entry to cells. These may lead to novel detection and treatment approaches against SARS-CoV-2.
The Aqeilan’s laboratory won the prestigious proof-of-concept ERC (PoC-ERC) grant to develop a cure for WOREE syndrome.
PoC-ERC grant to Prof. Aqeilan
Prof. Dana Wolf and Dr. Yotam Drier have led efforts to test and implement simple and sensitive pooling approaches to increase the efficiency of clinical testing for SAR-CoV-2.
Thanks to these efforts the throughput of tests of asymptomatic populations at the Hadassah Medical Center increased more than 7-fold, allowing efficient screening of healthcare personnel and nursing homes. This approach can be easily implemented in other clinical labs and drew worldwide attention. Read more
Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Mandelboim and Dr. Pini Tsukerman as their company Nectin Therapeutics secured $6 million in a financing round led by aMoon venture capital fund.
The company raised over $15M in the financing round pending milestones achievement. Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Yotam Drier on receiving a research grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
The grant will provide support for the next five years for multiple efforts in the Drier lab to systematically uncover how epigenetic alterations drive liver cancers. In addition the ISF will help establish the new Drier lab by supporting advanced experimental equipment and high-end computational infrastructure in a separate new faculty equipment grant. To Dr. […]
Prof. Dov Solizeanou is celebrating his 100th birthday! Huge mazal tov from the LRC friends and colleagues.
Professor Dov Sulitzeanu, who is one of the founders of the Lautenberg Center and the Department of Immunology is 100 years old and we at the Center give him our warmest greetings and appreciation for building our Center. Dov has been a role model of a scientist for many of his students and colleagues, including […]
Congratulations! The Israel Academy of Science and Humanities has chosen Prof. Yinon Ben Neriah as a new member of its faculty.
Moreover, the Lautenberg Center is proud to now have two of our professors as members of such academies, with Prof. Rami Aquilan being an Israel Young Academy member. Read more To Prof. Ben-Neriah lab