Biotechnology
Prof. Itai Benhar – Antibody Engineering
Antibody discovery for treating cancer,
autoimmunity, allergy and inflammation.
Novel formats of bispecific antibodies for
treating disease. Targeted nanomedicines.
Prof. Tal Dvir – Tissue Engineering
Tissue engineering and regenerative
medicine, Fabrication strategies and
biomaterials for tissue engineering,
Microelectronic-tissue hybrid.
Lab Website: http://www.dvirlab.tau.ac.il/
Dr. Johann Elbaz- Synthetic Biology
Engineering living organism by following
instruction encoded entirely in DNA, living
systems can sense and respond to their
environment, churn out complex behaviours
for sensing and nanotechnology applications.
Lab Website: https://www.elbazlab.com/
Prof. Ehud Gazit – Bionanotechnology
Molecular structure and self-assembly at the
Nano-scale, Amyloid formation and degenerative
disease, Inborn error of metabolism disorders,
Bionanotechnology: Technological applications
of peptide and metabolite assemblies.
Lab Website: http://gazit-lab.tau.ac.il/#!/home
Dr. Ayala Lampel – Biomolecular Nanotechnology
Spatiotemporal confinement of molecular
self-assembly and enzymatic catalysis;
Structure-function relationships governing
membraneless organelles; Biomaterials design
utilizing supramolecular order/disorder
Lab Website: http://lampelayala.wixsite.com/lampellab
Prof. Dan Peer – Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine and personalized therapeutics;
manipulation of inflammatory cells and cancers
using RNA molecules; Studying the interaction
of nanomaterials with the immune system
Lab Website: http://dan-peer.tau.ac.il/
Dr. Yariv Wine – System Immunology
Studying antibody repertoire following infection or
Vaccination. Focusing on trans-placental and breast
milk antibody repertoire, development of antibacterial
therapeutic antibodies, the role of tumour infiltrating B
cells, immune response following congenital
cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection, anti-drug antibodies
(ADA) following treatment with biologic drugs.
Lab Website: http://yarivwine.wix.com/yarivwine
Prof. Daniel Segal – Neurodegenerative diseases
Aggregative amyloidogenic proteins involved in
neurodegenerative diseases – analysis of their
structure and discovery of small molecules
and peptidomimetics to inhibit their toxic
aggregation.
