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    Prof. Irun R. Cohen

    Development and clinical applications of an antigen microarray device and informatics analyses aimed at diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring and management of autoimmune and other inflammatory diseases – the ImmunArray Ltd iCHIP (Israel and USA); now in clinical use.
    Treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and other autoimmune conditions using DNA plasmids encoding human HSP90 or HSP70 – Alma Bio Therapeutics (France).
    Treatment of ALS using a synthetic peptide that inhibits apoptosis and fosters cell growth – Immunity Pharma Ltd. (Israel); entering clinical trials.

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    Prof. Eli Canaani

    Comparison of the properties of the leukemogenic ALL-1 fusion proteins with those of normal ALL-1.
    Transcription profiles of primary tumors with ALL-1 rearrangements.
    Functions of the human ASH1 protein.
    Studies of the ALR gene.
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    Prof. David Cahen

    Sustainable Materials- Solar Energy
    Collaboration with:  @WIS: S. Cohen, G. Hodes, L. Kronik, L Houben, D. Oron; A. Kahn (Princeton); M. Bär (Helmholtz Centre Berlin, HZB and Erlangen); H. Bolink (Valencia);P. Nayak (TIFR-H); S Avashti (IISc); H. Ishii (Chiba); P. Schultz, JF. Guillemoles (IPVF-CNRS); T. Kirchartz (Duisburg-Jülich).
    sustainable resources Self-healing materials & concepts; New optoelectronic materials; Halide Perovskites; Between hard and soft matter.
    Bioelectronics
    Collaboration with:  @ WIS: M. Sheves, I. Pecht M. Tornow (TU-Munich); G. Vattya (Budapest); J. Blumberger (Imp. College); L. Zotti (Sevilla); JC Cuevas (Madrid); H. Chen (Zhejiang U);
    Quantum effects in BIology Proteins as solid-state electronic materials; Electronic charge transport in and across proteins; Biomolecular electronics; Between soft & hard matter.

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    Prof. Yigal Burstein

    Thermophilic enzymes
    Collaboration with:  Moshe Peretz, Orly Dym, Linda Shimon
    Isolation, characterization and cloning of enzymes from extremophilic microorganisms.
    Structure, function and thermal stability relationship studies of extremophilic enzymes.
    Crystalization and determination of the three-dimensional structures of extremophilic enzymes.
    Fatty Acid Synthesis in Tuberculosis causing baceria
    Collaboration with:  Zippora Shakked, Oren Zimhony, Ron Diskin, Moshe Peretz, Shira Albeck, Yoav Pelleg, Orly Dym
    Structure of acyl carrier protein synthase (AcpS) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)
    Expression and enzymatic studies on recombinant, 4'-Phosphopantetheinylated, active M. tuberculosis fatty acid synthase I

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    Dr. Ran Budnik

    Dark Matter detection:
    The XENON Dark Matter project: Data analysis, physics interpretations, development and construction XENONnT , PMTs, calibration techniques, statistical inference
    Detector physics:
    Novel effects in LXe detectors
    Future concepts and technologies for rare event detection - optically measuring single defects in crystals and molecules
    Other:
    Future concepts for Cosmic Ray precision detection

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    Dr. Shikma Bressler

    ATLAS experiment
    Data analysis - Searches for physics beyond the standard model
    Lepton flavour violating decays of the Higgs and Z bosons
    Asymmetry in electron/muon final states
    Generic data driven searches
    Instrumentation - Upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer
    Production and testing of the sTGC chambers
    Performance studies
    Installation in the ATLAS cavern
    Detector physics
    Collaboration with:  RD51 collaboration
    Basic R&D
    The role of resistive materials in gaseous detectors
    Charge and light amplification in Liquid Argon
    Applicative R&D
    Physics applications - future calorimeters in accelerators
    Civil applications - muon tomography for hazardous material detection, volcanology, medicine and more

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    Prof. Amos Breskin

    Noble-liquid neutron and gamma radiography concepts for detection of concealed explosives and nuclear materials (Homeland security)
    Photon imaging detectors
    Noble-liquid detector concepts for Dark-matter searches, neutrino physics and medical diagnostics
    Advanced gas-avalanche electron multipliers
    Particle tracking detectors for future particle and astroparticle experiments
    Methods of Nano-dosimetry for precise evaluation of radiation effects at the DNA level
    Methods for rapid evaluation of core fluids content in oil and gas wells

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    Prof. Achi Brandt

    Multi-level computational methods, scientific computation.

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    Prof. Eran Bouchbinder

    Material failure dynamics
    Collaboration with:  Prof. Alain Karma (Northeastern University, USA) Prof. Jay Fineberg (Hebrew University, Israel)
    Physics of sliding friction
    Collaboration with:  Dr. Efim Brener (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany) Prof. Jean-François Molinari (EPFL, Switzerland)
    Glass physics
    Collaboration with:  Prof. Edan Lerner (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    Plasticity of amorphous systems
    Collaboration with:  Prof. Chris Rycroft (Harvard University, USA) Prof. Edan Lerner (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Prof. Jan Schroers (Yale University, USA)
    Biophysics and cell mechanics
    Collaboration with:  Prof. Haguy Wolfenson (Technion, Israel)

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    Dr. Kfir Blum

    Theoretical particle physics
    Particle cosmology
    High-energy astrophysics

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