Organizing committee:
Benny Dekel
Shai Izraeli
Uri Seligsohn
Reception and Registration
10:00-10:15
Opening and Greetings
Ruth Arnon, President of the Israel Academy of Sciences
Benny Geiger, Chair of the Academic Board, The Israel Science Foundation
Uri Seligsohn, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, TAU
10:15-11:00
Plenary Lecture
Chairperson of morning session: Uri Seligsohn
Barry Coller, Rockefeller University
Developing rational antiplatelet agents: From bedside to bench and back
11:00-11:30
Karl Skorecki, Rambam Medical Center
Population genetic architecture in health and disease
12:00-12:30
Gidi Rechavi, Sheba Medical Center
Does RNA editing contribute to higher brain functions?
12:30-13:00
Eli Pikarski, Hadassah Medical Center
Targeting human hepatocellular carcinoma - Lessons from mouse models
13:00-14:00
Lunch break
14:00-14:30
Chairperson of afternoon session: Benny Dekel
Nadir Arber, Tel Aviv Medical Ceter
CD24 is an important target for the diagnosis and treatment of GI tumors
14:30-15:00
Ohad Birk, Soroka Medical Center
The molecular basis of hereditary diseases: studies of unique populations
15:00-15:30
Dror Harats, Sheba Medical Center
Phospholipids as immune modulators
15:30-16:00
Lior Gepstein, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
Modeling cardiac disease with induced pluripotent stem cells
16:00-16:30
Benjamin Reubinoff, Hadassah Medical Center
Human embryonic stem cells - From bench to patient
16:30-17:00
Coffee Break
17:00-17:45
Plenary Lecture
Chairperson: Shai Izraeli
Aharon Ciechanover, Nobel Prize Laureate, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
Physician- Scientst: Does Such a Hybrid Exist?
17:45-18:45
Chairman of panel discussion: Benny Geiger
The future of biomedical research in Israel and where do we go from here?
Participants: Barry Coller, Aharon Ciechanover, Shai Izraeli, Benny Dekel, Uri Seligsohn
19:00-20:00
Dinner