Edmond J. Safra Center & Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center - Joint Grants Call

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics aims to promote excellence in clinical bioinformatics research by bringing together bioinformatics scientists and clinicians.

This year, together with I-Medata AI Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (TASMC), we published a joint call for grants with the intention to support fundamental and translational collaborative research that combines novel computational techniques and clinical applications. The grants were for the amount of up to 200,000 NIS each.

Each proposal was anonymously reviewed by three or four independent reviewers. Final decisions were made by the grant committee of Prof. Irit Gat-Viks (TAU) and Dr. Orli Kehat (TASMC).

We are excited to announce the awardees:

Yaron Arbel, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, & Faculty of Medicine, TAU, and Noam Shomron, Faculty of Medicine, TAU.

Research title: "Advanced Electrocardiogram (ECG) Interpretation Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)".

Shlomo Berliner, Shani Shenhar-Tsarfaty, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, & Faculty of Medicine, TAU, and

Saharon Rosset, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, TAU, Daniel Nevo, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, TAU, and Uri Obolski, School of Public Health, TAU.

Research title: "Identifying effective antibiotic treatments through CRP dynamics".

Revital Kariv, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, & Faculty of Medicine, TAU, and Elhanan Borenstein, Faculty of Medicine and the School of Computer Science, TAU.

Proposal title: "Microbiome and Metabolome Profiling in Patients with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Compared to Subjects with Sporadic Colorectal Polyps: A Comprehensive Meta-Omic Analysis".

Hagai Ligumsky, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, & Faculty of Medicine, TAU, and Ron Shamir, School of Computer Science, TAU.

Research title: "Metastatic colorectal cancer care optimization in patients receiving systemic chemotherapy".

Nidal Muhanna, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, & Faculty of Medicine, TAU, and Tal Pupko, the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research , Faculty of Life Sciences, TAU.

Research title: "Molecular signature for prediction of malignancy in salivary gland cytopathology".

Liat Samuelov, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, & Faculty of Medicine, TAU, and Tzhachi Hagai, the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Life Sciences Faculty, TAU.

Research title: "Inference of epidermal adhesion dysregulation in cutaneous inflammation through single-cell and inter-cellular network analysis".

Congratulations to the awardees!

Many thanks to the applicants and to the reviewers. We appreciate your participation and hope these seed grants will lay a foundation for larger, advanced collaborations in the future.

The Grant Committee: Prof. Irit Gat-Viks (TAU) and Dr. Orli Kehat (TASMC).