Congratulations to Prof. Roded Sharan, Edmond J. Safra member, who was named the George and Maritza Pionkowski Chair in Computer Aided Drug Design.

Congratulations to Rami Nasser, Edmond J. Safra PhD student fellow (Sharan lab, Computer Science) who won the Deutsch Prize for PhD students in Computer Science, acknowledging excellent achievements in studies and research. 🏆

Congratulations to Tal Bamberger, Edmond J. Safra PhD student fellow (Borenstein lab, Medicine) who was awarded the third place in the best poster competition in the Israel Bioinformatics Symposium 2024 in Ben Gurion University.

Prof. Ron Shamir, former head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics, was awarded "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Israeli Bioinformatics Society (IBSCB). The prize was presented to Prof. Shamir in the Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium 2024 in Ben Gurion University.

A TAU team, led by Prof. Tamir Tuller, Edmond J. Safra member (Engineering), will participate in the iGEM Headquarters 2024 competition for the sixth time. Tel Aviv University Read more 👇 safrabio.cs.tau.ac.il/igem_tau_2024

Congratulations to Prof. Asaf Madi, Edmond J. Safra affiliate (Medicine), who was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. 🧪🔬 Check out Prof. Madi's lab: asafmadilab.com Asaf Madi Tel Aviv University

Prof. Uri Ben-David, Edmond J. Safra member (Medicine), was elected as a member of the Israel Young Academy. Congratulations! Tel Aviv University Ben-David Lab

Congratulations to Shiri Baum, Edmond J. Safra MSc student fellow, and Ido Meshulam, 3rd year student in the bioinformatics program, who won the first place prize for their joint research project in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.

Read the article, published in Nat Commun, by Yadid Algavi, MD-PhD student and Prof. Elhanan Borenstein TAU (Medical & Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University) on a new metric for predicting newly colonized microbial population in the microbiome after fecal transplant. shorturl.at/f39Fz.

Congratulations to Prof. Yoav Benjamini, Edmond J. Safra member, Prof. Daniel Yekutieli & Prof. Ruth Heller (Statistics & Operations Research, Tel Aviv University) who won the 2024 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, for their pioneering work on False Discovery Rate. shorturl.at/Rdkp2

Congratulations to Maya Metzger, undergraduate student in Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University , who was awarded Excellent Student Prize by the School of Computer Science.

Edmond J. Safra researchers at Tel Aviv University , Profs. Judith Berman 💔, Uri Gophna, Carmit Levy, Saharon Rosset, Roded Sharan and Dr. Rotem Rubinstein - were all awarded research grants from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) in the 2024-2025 grants cycle. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Prof. Roded Sharan, Edmond J. Safra member, who is the new head of the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at the Exact Sciences Faculty at Tel Aviv University.

Fellow microbial immunity, mobile elements, and plasmid enthusiasts: the paper of our wonderful Bruria Samuel on anti-defense genes in plasmids is now published in nature!!! Check out her thread below for highlights of our new results. 1/2

Announcing the Awardees of אוניברסיטת תל אביב Tel Aviv University-Clalit Health Services Joint Research Grant Program.

Congratulations to Prof. David (Dudu) Burstein, Edmond J. Safra Center member (Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University), who was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! Read more: safrabio.cs.tau.ac.il/david_burstein… Burstein lab

Congratulations to Hagai Levi, Edmond J. Safra PhD student fellow (Computer Science & AI and Medical & Health Sciences, TAU) who was awarded the 2025 Edmond J. Safra Excellent Research Student Prize.

The Annual Fellowship Ceremony of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics took place on January 15, 2025 at Tel Aviv University safrabio.cs.tau.ac.il/edmond_j_safra…

Dr. David Amar joins Tel Aviv University as a faculty member in the Blavatnik School of Computer Science & AI and the Dept. of Human Genetics & Biochemistry (TAU Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences). He is also joining the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics. Welcome aboard!

The annual student conference of the Edmond J. Safra Young Researchers' Forum took place last week at Tel Aviv University. The conference, "Byte-Sized Science", organized entirely by the students, featured eleven lightning talks by graduate students. See: shorturl.at/NFfRp