• Prof. Yoram Salomon

    Anti-cancer treatments :
    Development of novel bacteriochlorophyll-based drugs for photochemotherapy.
    Boron neutron capture therapy.
    Reactive oxygen species, their generation by bacteriochlorophyll and light, their role in signal transduction and mechanisms of cell and tumor destruction.
    Vascular biology and vascular destruction.
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    Prof. Jacob Sagiv

    Supramolecular Architecture at Interfaces (with R. Maoz)
    Supramolecular Surface Chemistry: Bottom-up Nanofabrication using Planned Self-Assembling Mono- and Multilayer Systems (with R. Maoz)
    Constructive Lithography: Contact Electrochemical Surface Patterning on Lateral Length Scales from Nanometer to Centimeter (with R. Maoz)
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    Prof. Dov Sagi

    Human vision, with an emphasis on processes involved in image segmentation, learning, and memory.

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  • Picture of Prof. Boris Rybtchinski

    Prof. Boris Rybtchinski

    Organic self-assembly: nanoreactors and nanocapsules
    Solar fuels: photoinduced water splitting for hydrogen production
    Artificial photosynthesis: light-harvesting materials for solar energy conversion

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    Prof. Menachem Rubinstein

    Role of FABP4 in ER stress - imlications in the metabolic syndrome
    Collaboration with:  Rinat OZ
    Cytokine receptors and binding proteins
    Collaboration with:  D. Novick
    LDL receptor as a cellular virus entry port
    Collaboration with:  Danit Finkelshtein-Beker, Ariel Werman, Daniela Novick
    Regulation and role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in cell survival and cell death
    Collaboration with:  Efrat Dvash, Rina Vasserman, Ofir Meir, Chiara Riganti (University of Turin, Italy).
    Role of MGST2 in DNA damage and cell death
    Role of MGST2 in chemotherapy-triggered cell death
    Role of C/EBP beta in drug resistance of tumor cells

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  • Prof. Israel Rubinstein

    Functional Nanomaterials
    Collaboration with:  Dr. Alexander Vaskevich
    Self-assembled nanostructures on surfaces
    Oligonucleotide layers on surfaces
    Nanoplasmonic systems: Basic studies and sensing applications
    Application of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectroscopy to the study of metal oxidation and corrosion (with E. Sabatani, A. Tesler)
    Electromagnetic resonances in high-n dielectric particles
    Electroless deposition of shape-controlled nanostructures (with F. Münch)
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    Prof. Varda Rotter

    Molecular mechanisms controlling the expression of p53 in normal cells and its deregulation in cancer cells
    Involvement of p53 in cell differentiation and apoptosis: <I>in vivo</I> and in vitro models.
    Cellular proteins that specifically complex with the p53 protein.
    Cellular proteins that are induced upstream or downstream to the p53 protein following genotoxic stress.

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  • Picture of Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar

    Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar

    Hamiltonian systems - theory and applications
    Collaboration with:  M. Radnovic, A. Rapoport, E. Shlizerman, D. Turaev
    Near-integrable systems
    The Boltzmann ergodic hypothesis and soft billiards.
    Chaotic scattering.
    Resonant surface waves.
    Perturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equation.
    Mathematical models of the hematopoietic system and their medical implications
    Collaboration with:  R. Malka, E. Shochat.
    Chaotic mixing of fluid flows
    Collaboration with:  R. Aharon, H. Gildor

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    Dr. Michal Rivlin

    Mechanisms underlying direction selectivity in the retina
    Computations in retinal circuits and their adapting mechanisms
    Connectivity pattern between retinal neurons and their targets
    Visual processing along the visual pathway and interpretation of retinal adaptation by retinal targets
    Retinal function in pathological stsates

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    Prof. Michel Revel

    Applications of IL-6 Chimera and Interferon-beta in neurology, hematopoiesis, and oncology.
    Collaboration with:  J. Chebath
    Interleukin-6 Chimera, a superactivator of the gp130 receptor system: role in nerve myelination, neuroprotection and in the development of neuro-glial cells from embryonic tissues and stem cells.
    Collaboration with:  J. Chebath
    Transdifferentiation of neural crest cell derived melanoma into myelinating Schwann cell. Genes controlling cell growth, differentiation, melanogenesis and synthesis of myelin proteins.
    Collaboration with:  J. Chebath

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