July 2022: New Edmond J. Safra affiliate: Dr. Yaara Oren

Dr. Yaara Oren is joining the Edmond J. Safra Center as an Affiliate.

July 2022: New Edmond J. Safra affiliate: Dr. Yaara Oren

Dr. Yaara Oren is joining the Department of Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, in the Faculty of Medicine, and is also joining the Edmond J. Safra Center as an Affiliate.

 

Dr. Oren was an Edmond J. Safra PhD student fellow under the supervision of Prof. Tal Pupko (Life Sciences). She is the twenty-third alumnus of the Edmond J. Safra Center who receives a tenure-track academic position.

 

Yaara studied in her PhD regulatory evolution of bacterial pathogens. She then continued to a postdoc at the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School, where she studied cancer persistenth cells with Profs Joan Brugge and Aviv Regev.  

 

Dr. Oren's lab focuses on the identification and characterization of mechanisms of non-genetic drug resistance in cancer and what they can teach us about non-Darwinian evolution.

 

 

   

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