Dangoor Center - Kickoff Meeting
The Dangoor Centre for Personalized Medicine at Bar-Ilan University
February 21-22, 2018
Yearim Hotel, Ma'ale Hachamisha

February 21, 2018 | |
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10:00-10:30 | Arrival, Registration and Coffee, Geffen Hall |
10:30-11:00 | Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Vice President for Research Opening Remarks |
11:00-12:00 | Prof. David Sidransky, John Hopkins University and Hospital, Co-Founder and General Partner of Israel Biotech Fund Special Lecture: PDx Models and Free DNA in the Diagnosis and Therapy of Cancer |
12:10-15:15 | Session One: Diagnostical and Pre-Clinial, Geffen Hall |
12:10-12:25 | Prof. Dror Fixler, Engineering Personalizable theranostics making use of fluorescence characterizations upon coupling to Gold Nanoparticles |
12:25-12:40 | Prof. Rachela Popovtzer, Engineering Personalized Medicine |
12:40-12:55 | Prof. Bilha Fischer, Chemistry Prof. Yaron Shav-Tal, Life Sciences Development of Probes for Diagnosis of Subtypes of Breast Cancer towards Personalized Medicine |
12:55-14:00 | Lunch, Hotel Dining Room |
14:00-14:15 | Prof. Uri Nir, Life Sciences Usage of the cancer specific kinase-FerT as a selection marker for potential responders to the new E260 anti-cancer compound |
14:15-14:30 | Prof. Chaya Brodie, Life Sciences Patient-derived cancer stem cells for in vitro and in vivo personalized disease modeling and drug screening |
14:30-14:45 | Dr. Omry Koren, Medicine The microbiome in personalized medicine |
14:45-15:00 | Dr. Amir Bashan, Physics Ecological design of the human microbiome |
15:00-15:15 | Dr. Nissan Yissachar, Life Sciences Harnessing the human microbiome for personalized immunomodulation |
15:15-15:45 | Check-in, Room allocations |
15:45-17:50 | Session Two: Genomics, Geffen Hall |
15:45-16:00 | Dr. Ayal Hendel,Life Sciences A CRISPR Approach to Precision Medicine |
16:00-16:15 | Prof. Aron Weller, Psychology Epigenetic mechanisms regulating overweight, obesity and weight loss – towards a personalized medicine approach |
16:15-16:30 | Dr. Evan Elliot, Medicine The Autism Registry and Biobank – a step forward in personalized medicine |
16:30-16:45 | Dr. Tomer Kalisky, Engineering Single cell genomics for profiling complex kidney disease |
16:45-17:00 | Dr. Itay Onn, Medicine SMC complexes as novel targets in personalized medicine |
17:00-17:20 | Coffee Break |
17:20-17:35 | Dr. Meital Gal-Tanamy, Medicine Hepatitis C virus leaves epigenetic signature post cure by direct-acting antivirals that is linked to mutation signature |
17:35-17:50 | Dr. David Enshell-Seijffer, Medicine Personalized medicine for androgenetic alopecia Prof. David Karasik, Medicine Genome-wide association studies of aging-related diseases |
17:50-18:50 | Session Three: Computational Immunology, Geffen Hall |
17:50-18:05 | Prof. Ramit Mehr, Life Sciences Research in personalized medicine in the computational immunology lab |
18:05-18:20 | Dr. Gur Yaari, Engineering Personalized medicine perspective in Gur Yaari’s lab |
18:20-18:35 | Prof. Sol Efroni, Life Sciences Personalized medicine perspective in Sol Efroni's lab |
18:35-18:50 | Prof. Yoram Louzoun, Mathematics Optimal donor-recipient matching in bone marrow transplants |
18:50-19:20 | Bar-Ilan Launches Personalized Medicine Initiative, Oren Hall Prof. Arie Zaban, President Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Vice President for Research Dr. Merav Galili, Vice President of Development |
19:20-20:30 | Dinner, Hotel Dining Room |
21:00-22:00 | Evening Event (Inbar Amir), Oren Hall |
22:00 | Beer, Networking & Science, Oren Hall |
February 22, 2018 | |
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07:00-09:15 | Breakfast, Hotel Dining Room |
08:15-09:15 | Check-out and Baggage storage |
09:15-11:00 | Session Four: Medical Informatics and the Person in Personalized, Geffen Hall |
09:15-09:30 | Dr. Noa Vilchinsky, Psychology Prof. Rachel Dekel, Social Work The Person in Personalized Medicine- The psychosocial perspective in personalized medicine |
09:30-09:45 | Prof. Ron Unger, Life Sciences The program for genomics and biomedical informatics |
09:45-10:00 | Prof. Eitan Okun, Life Sciences Sporadic Alzheimer’s disease becomes personalized |
10:00-10:15 | Dr. Dana Atzil-Slonim, Psychology Prof. Eva Gilboa-Schechtman, Psychology Personalized Treatment and Diagnosis of Depression |
10:15-10:30 | Dr. Sivan Spitzer-Shohat, Medicine Prof. Mary Rudolf, Medicine Enhancing the Paradigm of Personalized Medicine: Marrying the Biological with Social Precision Medicine |
10:30-10:45 | Prof. Gal Yadid, Life Sciences A shift of mental health care from a reactive to a proactive and personalized discipline |
10:45-11:00 | Prof. Arnon Blum, Medicine Impaired Ability to Grow Colonies of Endothelial Stem Cells Could be the Mechanism Explaining the High Cardiovascular Morbidity & Mortality of Patients with Depression Prof. Nirit Bauminger-Zviely, Education Tailoring Interventions to ASD Phenotypical Characteristics |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30-12:45 | Session Five: Immunology, Geffen Hall |
11:30-11:45 | Prof. Cyrille Cohen, Life Sciences Bridging between personalized medicine and Immunotherapy |
11:45-12:00 | Dr. Achia Urbach, Life Sciences Human pluripotent stem cells as a major tool in personalized medicine |
12:00-12:15 | Prof. Mira Barda-Saad,Life Sciences Personalization of immunotherapy for treating cancer |
12:15-12:30 | Prof. Izhak Haviv, Medicine Utilizing somatic mutations as immune-epitopes to generate personalized vaccine against cancer |
12:30-12:45 | Dr. Orly Avni,Medicine Social stress increases the risk for microbiota-dependent autoimmunity |
12:45-14:00 | Lunch, Hotel Dining Room |
14:00-15:30 | Session Six: Transcriptomics, Geffen Hall |
14:00-14:15 | Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Life Sciences Small nucleolar RNA and rRNA modification are key to cancer progression |
14:15-14:30 | Prof. Erez Levanon, Life Sciences RNA editing - Common, Hidden Mutations |
14:30-14:45 | Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Medicine Liquid Biopsy Platform for Personalized Therapy in Brain Tumours |
14:45-15:00 | Prof. Doron Ginsberg, Life Sciences Long Non Coding RNAs as biomarkers for prognosis and cancer-care management |
15:00-15:15 | Prof. Ronit Sarid, Life Sciences Identification of Host Genes that Regulate the Outcome of KSHV Infection |
15:15-15:30 | Prof. Tzipora Falik Zaccai, Medicine Personalized medicine in the Galilee |
15:30-15:50 | Coffee Break |
15:50-16:50 | Session Seven:, Proteomics, Geffen Hall |
15:50-16:05 | Dr. Hava Gil-Henn, Medicine Characterization of cancer metastasis-associated gene signatures and pathways |
15:50-16:05 | Prof. Haim Cohen, Life Sciences Precision medicine of aging and age related diseases |
16:20-16:35 | Prof. Doron Gerber, Life Sciences Developing Microfluidic Platforms for Personalized Medicine |
16:35-16:50 | Prof. Yanay Ofran, Life Sciences Personalized mapping and engineering of biomolecular interactions |
16:50-17:10 | Closing Session, Geffen Hall Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Vice President for Research, Closing Remarks |