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
Congratulations to Prof. Ben-Neriah and his team on their newest and exciting findings published in Nature!
In the article, Prof. Ben-Neriah and his team show that mutant p53 has an oncogenic effect in the distal gut but a tumor-suppressive effect in the proximal gut, and these opposing properties are determined by the gut microbiome. To the paper Watch a Youtube video review of the project by Eleanor Sheekey
Congratulations to Dr. Oren Parnas and his team on their newest publication in Nature Communications.
Their fascinating and important research applies single cell RNA-seq to uncover important players in the early development of pancreatic cancer, a disease with shockingly low survival rates. For more about their valuable discoveries click here. To the paper
Congratulations to Michael Berger for your well-deserved promotion of associated professorship!
Prof. Michael Berger
Prestigious research grant from the European Research Council for Dr. Yotam Drier
Dr. Yotam Drier was awarded 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC grant will support the Drier lab’s quest to understand epigenetic and topological alterations in cancer and their intratumoral heterogeneity. These efforts include both uncovering fundamental mechanisms that regulate epigenetics and topology, as well as translating these findings to improve treatment of specific […]
Prof. Ofer Mandelboim published a new paper in Nature Communications!
Dr. Einat Seidel led this exiting work into a new role for a human cytomegalovirus-derived signal peptide which is slowly cleaved, enabling it to function in immune evasion! Click here to read more about this important and impressive discovery. To the Mandelbiom lab
Congratulations to Prof. Dana G. Wolf and PhD Student Or Alfi for the recent publication of their novel study in the Journal of Virology !
The researchers reveal SARS-CoV-2 tissue and virus-specific innate immune responses of human nasal-mucosal and lung tissues. “The study sheds light on the role of the nasal-mucosa in active viral transmission and immune defence, suggesting a window of opportunity for early interventions, in contrast to the restricted innate immune response in early SARS-CoV-2 infected lung tissues […]
Congratulations to Prof. Michal Lotem and Dr. Emma Hajaj!
Prof. Lotem and Dr. Hajaj have discovered that two splice variants of the SLAMF6 receptor are found on human T Cells. While one form has a known antagonist role, the other form acts as an agonist that contributes to the anti-tumor response of T Cells. They show that promoting mRNA splicing, resulting in an elevated […]