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In the past five years, Bar Ilan University has absorbed nearly 30 Israeli scientists returning from universities all around the world, through the "Returning Scientists Project".  Bar Ilan's Vision and Key Mission, as articulated by University President Prof. Moshe Kaveh, is to bring all Israeli scientists back to Israel. Over the next five years the University plans to bring about 20 additional experimental scientists home
through this important project.
 
Bar Ilan University prides itself in succeeding to enroll these esteemed scientists to join its academic team:
 
2006
  • Dr. Ehud Banin, of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials. Returned from the University of Washington, Seattle. Fields of research: microbial interactions, bacterial biofilm, novel antibiofilm agents, antifouling surfaces, and cell-cell communication.

  • Dr. Mira Barda-Saad, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from the National Cancer Institute at NIH in Maryland. Fields of research: MR methods suited for studying membrane-associated proteins, particularly the KcsA potassium channel.

  • Dr. Joseph Frey, of the Department of Chemistry. Returned from the University of Cambridge. Fields of research: Polymer synthesis and characterization, controlled polymerization, and novel macromolecular architectures.

  • Dr. Yuval Garini, of the Physics Department and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, returned from the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. Fields of research: nano-biophysics and nano-phtonics.

  • Dr. Yoav Paas, of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials. Returned from the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France. Fields of research: Structure and function of ion channels, and activated release of drugs from nanoparticles at the site of disease.

  • Dr. Shai Rahimipour of the Department of Chemistry, returned from The Scripps Research Institute in California. Fields of research: medical chemistry.

2007

  • Dr. Jordan Chill, of the Department of Chemistry. Returned from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland. Fields of research: Polymer synthesis and characterization, controlled polymerization, and novel macromolecular architectures.

  •  Dr. Cyrille Cohen, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland. Fields of research: tumor immunology, immunotherapy, immuno-cell and gene therapy.

  • Dr. Gil Goobes, of the Department of Chemistry and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, returned from the University of Washington, Seattle. Fields of research: molecular properties of photovoltaic (PV) cells and solar cell technology.

  •  Dr. Yanay Ofran, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from Columbia University. Fields of research: systems biology and functional genomics.    

  • Dr. Rachela Popovtzer, of the Faculty of Engineering and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, was hired by the university in 2007. Returned from the University of Michigan. Fields of research: Electrochemical 'Lab on a Chip' For Electronic Detection of Biological Activity.

  • Dr. Orit Shefi , of the Faculty of Engineering and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, returned from the University of California San Diego. Fields of research: neurobiological systems development, tissue engineering and neuroprosthetic devices.

2008

  • Dr. Laurent Benisvy, of the Department of Chemistry, returned from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. Fields of research: biomimetic chemistry and DFT-calculation and advanced spectroscopy on "radical enzymes" chemical models.
  • Dr. Sol Efroni, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, returned from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute in Maryland. Fields of research: Structural and Computational Biology.

  •  Dr. Dror Fixler, of the Faculty of Engineering, returned from South China Normal University. Fields of research: optics and lasers, communication systems, electricity, linear algebra, and differential equations.

  • Dr. Oren Levy, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, returned from the University of Queensland, Australia. Fields of research: molecular marine ecology and plant sciences.

  • Dr. Yarden Opatowsky, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, returned from Yale University. Fields of research: immunology and cancer research, neurobiology, structural and computational biology.

  • Dr. Avi Pe'er, of the Department of Physics and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, returned from the University of Colorado. Fields of research: precision optical measurements and control of light-matter interaction, quantum optics and laser physics.

  • Dr. Efrat Shimshoni, of the Department of Physics, returned from the University of Illinois. Fields of research: transport phenomena in low-dimensional and strongly correlated systems, quantum phase transitions, and dissipation in quantum systems.

  • Dr. David Zitoun, of the Department of Chemistry and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, returned from University of Montpellier, France. Fields of research: photovoltaics and energy storage, inorganic synthesis of semi-conductors, metals and oxides, magnetic properties of materials, and nanostructures.

2009
 

  • Dr. Shay Ben-Aroya, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, returned from the University of British Columbia. Fields of research: Cellular and Developmental Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research.

  • Dr. Doron Gerber, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from Stanford University. Fields of research:virus host interactions, system biology, and microfluidics. 
     
  • Dr. Tamar Juven-Gershon, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from the University of California San Diego. Fields of research: Cellular and Developmental Biology.
     
  • Dr. Arie Gruzman, of the Department of Chemistry. Returned from the University of California San Francisco. Fields of research: Diabetes, prostate cancer and LAS disease.
     
  • Dr. Dmitri Gutman, of the Department of Physics, returned from the University of Florida. Fields of research: many-body systems out of equilibrium, quantum noise and transport, effects of interaction and disorder, quantum wires, and electronic properties of graphite, graphene multi-layers and other layered materials.
     
  • Dr. Sivan Korenblit, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from the University of California San Francisco. Fields of research: Cellular and Developmental Biology.
     
  • Dr. Erez Levanon, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from Harvard Medical School. Fields of research: Structural and Computational Biology.
     
  • Dr. Hanoch Senderowitz, of the Department of Chemistry, returned from Columbia University. Fields of research: computational organic chemistry.
     
  • Dr. Amos Sharoni, of the Department of Physics. Returned from the University of California San Diego. Fields of research: spintronics of nano-scaled lateral structures, and transition metal oxides.
     
  • Dr. Eli Sloutskin, of the Department of Physics. Returned from Harvard University. Fields of research: Colloidal models of phase transitions in nano-scale systems, crystallization, and interfacial phenomena in colloidal suspensions.
     
  • Dr. Yaakov Tischler, of the Department of Chemistry. Returned from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fields of research: molecular Photonics and optical nano-materials.
     
  • Dr. Avi Zadok, of the Faculty of Engineering. Returned from California Institute of Technology. Fields of research: electro-optic devices, silicon photonics, and optical communication. 

2010

  • Dr.Amit Tzur, a Senior Lecturer at the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from Harvard Medical School. Fields of research:Cellular and Developmental Biology, Cell cycle, Cell growth.

     

  • Dr. Lior Appelbaum, Senior Lecturer at the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University School of Medicine. Fields of research: Cellular and Developmental Biology, Neurobiology.  

  • Dr. Gad Miller of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Returned from the University of Nevada. Fields of research: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - ROS metabolism and signaling in plants' response to environmental stresses.  
     

  • Dr. Daniel Friedman, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering. Returned from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Fields of research: Computer vision, Geometric and topological algorithms, Bioengineering.

  • Dr. Gilbert Daniel Nessim, of the Department of Chemistry. Returned from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Fields of research: Scientific mechanisms of the synthesis of nanostructures and to develop relevant industrial applications.
     
  • Dr. David Lubman, of the Department of Chemistry. Returned from the University of Michigan. Fields of research: Cancer Stem Cells, Glyco-proteomics as markers for cancer, Phospho-signaling in metastasis, Cell sorting and circulating tumor cells, Auto-antibody response.
      

2012 

  • Dr. Sharon Ruthstein is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, teaching General Chemistry, Symmetry and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance. She returned from University of Pittsburgh, and focuses her reserach on protein structure and function, structural biology, magnetic resonance and metalloproteins.

  • Dr. Ido Bachelet, of the Faculty of Life Sciences, returning from Harvard University (and previously MIT), is the group leader of a multidisciplinary group developing and studying emerging biologically-inspired technologies. His research spans a wide array of fields, ranging from synthetic biology, DNA machines and computers, nanorobotics and swarm intelligence to architecture, physical computing, design, art and interfaces between the physical and digital worlds.  
     
  • Dr. Eitan Okun, is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences, returning from the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Maryland. His research team is focused on understanding the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease and ischemic brain stroke, as well as the molecular mechanisms governing learning and memory processes during aging. 
     

  • Dr. Beena Kalisky of the Department of Physics, returned to BIU from Stanford University. Her research focuses on sensitive magnetic measurements, scanning SQUID, superconductivity, magnetism and biomagnetism.

  • Dr. Tomer Kalisky, of the Department of Engineering, where he focues on Bioengineering, returned from Stanford University. Fields of research: Single cell genomics, with applications to stem cell biology, tissue regeneration, and cancer.

 

 

Last modified: 20/02/2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 From left to right: President of the University, Prof. Moshe Kaveh, University Rector, Prof. Yosef Menis, Vice President of Research - Prof. Harold Basch, Recipient Erez Levanon, PhD., and the Dean of the Life Sciences Faculty, Prof. Uri Nir. 






Recipient Shay Ben-Aroya, PhD.






From left to right: President of the University, Prof. Moshe Kaveh, University Rector, Prof. Yosef Menis, Vice President of Research - Prof. Harold Basch, Recipient Dr. Sivan Korenblit, Phd.,  the Dean of the Life Sciences Faculty, Prof. Uri Nir, and Prof. Benjamin Ehrenberg, Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences.

 







 


Recipient Eli Sloutskin, PhD.

 

 

 

 


From left to right: President of the University, Prof. Moshe Kaveh, University Rector, Prof. Yosef Menis, Vice President of Research - Prof. Harold Basch, Recipient Doron Gerber, PhD., and the Dean of the Life Sciences Faculty, Prof. Uri Nir.








Recipient Tamar Juven-Gershon, PhD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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