January 2025: Borenstein named Chair in Bioinformatics

Congratulations to Prof. Elhanan Borenstein, Edmond J. Safra member, who was named the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Bioinformatics.

Prof. Borenstein is a faculty member in the Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI and in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at TAU.

His research focuses on computational study of the human microbiome and of other complex microbial ecosystems. He is interested in the integration of systems biology approaches, computational modeling, data science, and integrative meta-omic analysis to address fundamental questions in microbial ecology and to gain a systems-level, principled, mechanistic understanding of the microbiome. His lab develops a variety of computational methods and predictive models for studying the human microbiome, and aim to harness such methods for microbiome-based therapy.