CBRC Events
Student Seminar 2024 |
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On September 5th 2024, the CBRC held the 6th Weinstat Graduate Student Seminar to encourage cancer research at Tel-Aviv University.
This year, for the sixth time, the Esther and Zvi Weinstat Award was given to 13 graduate students who are engaged in cancer research. The winners were selected by members of the CBRC committee from 25 research abstracts that were submitted by TAU students..
The event was opened with a eulogy delivered by Dr. Raya Leibowitz in memory of the donors Esther and Zvi Weinstat. This year Raya dedicated her words to the memory of Esther Weinstat. Her illness and Zvi's passion for science and education initiated their donation to CBRC. Her kind words were followed by an exciting opening lecture delivered by Prof. Uri Ben-David titled "Cancer aneuploidy: Tackling an age-old mystery with cutting-edge tools". Later, each of the awarded students presented a 3-minute overview of their work.
The prizes were divided into three financial categories in the following list:
- 1-4 won 4000 NIS
- 5-9 won 2000 NIS
- 10-13 won 1000 NIS
CONGRATULATIONS!
- Dr. Yulia Liubomirski (Ronit Satchi-Fainaro) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences "Antibody-drug conjugates for the treatment of HER2-positive cancers.
- Tamar Shami (Neta Erez) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, "Characterize the microenvironment in lung metastasis of breast cancer and melanoma".
- Marana Abboud (Ido Wolf) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. "Revealing the tumor suppressive sequence within KL1 domain of the hormone Klotho".
- Alina Brosque (Dinorah Friedmann-Morvinski) - Faculty of Life Sciences, "Immunotherapy of glioblastoma with metabolically-empowered CAR T-cells".
- Dor Breier (Dan Peer) - Faculty of Life Sciences, "Genome editing using lipid nanoparticles for hepatocellular carcinoma therapy".
- Rachel Slutsky (Uri Ben-David) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, "Machine-learning analysis reveals an important role for negative selection in shaping cancer aneuploidy landscapes".
- Koren Salomon (Ronit Satchi-Fainaro) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, "Elucidating the role of P-Selectin/P-Selectin ligand-1 axis in lung cancer brain metastasis".
- Ori Moskowitz (Merav Cohen ) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, "Neutrophils physically interact with cancer cells to form a signaling hub promoting breast cancer aggressiveness".
- Michal Kazelnik (Rina Arbesfeld) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, "The Effect of specific gut microbiota on the oncogenic canonical Wnt pathway".
- Sarah Amar (Asaf Madi) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, "Beyond IL-2: The promise of anti-PD-1-attenuated IL-2 fusion protein in cancer immunotherapy".
- Rahul Bhattacharjee (Zvi Fishelson ) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, "Regulators of cell resistance to complement-dependent cytotoxicity: DNAJB6 as a gene target in cancer immunotherapy".
- Yann Fery (Yosef Shiloh) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences , "ZC3H4 Safeguards Genome Integrity by Preventing Transcription-Replication Conflicts at ncRNA Loci".
- Siva Sai Naga Anurang Muddineni (Michael Milyavsky) - Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, "cAMP signaling pathway protects human Hematopoietic Stem Cells from anti-cancer therapies".
We would like to thank all the students who submitted their abstracts and attended the ceremony, the PIs for supporting this event, and the committee members for selecting outstanding projects. Thanks for attending this event and see you next year.
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Student Seminar 2023 |
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On September 13th 2023, the CBRC held the 5th Weinstat Graduate Student Seminar to encourage cancer research at Tel-Aviv University.
This year, for the fifth time, the Esther and Zvi Weinstat Award was presented to 13 graduate students who are engaged in cancer research. The winners were selected by members of the CBRC committee from 22 research abstracts that were submitted by TAU students.
Unfortunately and unlike all the previous events, this year’s award ceremony was held in the absence of the donor Zvi Weinstat, who passed away on March 2023.
The event was opened with a eulogy delivered by Dr. Raya Leibowitz in memory of the donors Esther and Zvi Weinstat. Her kind words were followed by an exciting opening lecture delivered by Prof. Vered Padler-Karavani titled "Targeting the sweet spot of human diseases". Later, each of the awarded students presented a 5-minute overview of their work.
The prizes were divided into three financial categories in the following list:
- 1-4 won 4000 NIS
- 5-9 won 2000 NIS
- 10-13 won 1000 NIS
CONGRATULATIONS!
- Hagai Levi (Ran Elkon, Ron Shamir) - Faculty of Medicine/ Faculty of Exact Sciences, "Evaluation of European-based polygenic risk score for breast cancer in Ashkenazi Jewish women in Israel.
- Adi Zoref-Lorenz (Shai Izraeli) - Faculty of Medicine, "Using a novel HLH diagnostic index to interrogate inflammation in hematologic malignancies".
- Paulee Manich (Carmit Levy) - Faculty of Medicine, "Investigating the effects of chronic exercise on melanoma brain metastases".
- Johanna Zerbib (Uri Ben-David) - Faculty of Medicine, "Identifying cellular vulnerabilities of aneuploid cells"
- Hagar Ben-Yaakov (Adit Ben-Baruch) - Faculty of Life Sciences, "TME stimulation-induced enrichment of cancer stem cells and polyploidy in Luminal A breast cancer".
- Neta Gochman (Dana Ishay-Ronen) - Faculty of Medicine, "Premalignant mammary epithelial cell plasticity in BRCA1 mutation carriers"
- Artem Danilevsky (Noam Shomron) - Faculty of Medicine, "Applied artificial intelligence for liquid biopsy: advancing early cancer detection"
- Inbal Hazut - Mudahi (Ariel Muniz) - Faculty of Medicine, "IL-4, IL-33, IFN-g, TNF-a and GM-CSF are Upstream Regulators Of The Transcriptional Activity Of Lung Metastasis-Entrained Eosinophil In Breast Cancer"
- Maharrish Chelladurai (Issac Witz) - Faculty of Life Sciences, "Hemoglobin-derived proteins/peptides function as innate anticancer resistance factors".
- Yuval Bin (Yossi Zefadia) - Faculty of Life Sciences, "Repurposing common medications to overcome chemotherapy resistance in cancer".
- Hala Kasis (Ilan Tsarfaty) - Faculty of Medicine, "Revealing the Secrets of BRCA1: From Ameboid Cell Motility to Metastasis, and Revolutionizing Cancer Therapy with BRCA1-Based Gene Editing".
- Rami Khoury (Ronit Satchi-Fainaro) - Faculty of Medicine, "Elucidating the interactions between BRCA-mutated breast cancer cells and microglia facilitating brain metastasis".
- Nofar Israel (Vered Padler-Karavani) - Faculty of Life Sciences, "Investigating principles of cancer glyco-immunotherapy".
We would like to thank all the students who submitted their abstracts and attended the ceremony, the PIs for supporting this event, and the committee members for selecting outstanding projects. Thanks for attending this event and see you next year.
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Student Seminar 2022 |
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On September 22nd 2022, the CBRC held the 4th Weinstat Graduate Student Seminar to encourage cancer research at Tel-Aviv University.
Prizes were awarded to eleven outstanding projects, presented by students from different faculties and medical centers.
- Omer Adler - Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- Anabel Eckerling - Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences
- Daniella Vaskovich-Koubi - Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- Ron Kleiner - Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- Lior Stotsky-Oterin - George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
- Dana Tarab-Ravski - George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
- Shreyas Madiwale - Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Schneider Children’s Medical Center
- Nofar Erlichman - George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
- Sahar Israeli Dangoor - Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- Hanna Moalem - Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sheba Medical Center
- Rita Perelroizen - George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
The event in the presence of Zvi Weinstat, CBRC committee members, students, friends and family was opened by an exciting lecture by Prof. Shai Izraeli, director of the Hematology-Oncology Department at Schneider Children’s Medical Center. The lecture was followed by short presentations by the young scientists.
We are grateful for the generous donation made by Esther and Zvi Weinstat that made this event possible.
We hope to continue this tradition in the future in order to encourage innovation and excellence in cancer research at Tel-Aviv University.
Student Seminar 2021 |
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On September 1st 2021, the CBRC held the 3rd Weinstat Graduate Student Seminar to encourage cancer research at Tel-Aviv University.
CBRC Weinstat Graduate Student Seminar - Sept. 2021. Photo: Yael Tzur
Prizes were awarded to eleven outstanding projects, presented by students from different faculties and medical centers.
The winners are:
- Eilam Yeini
- Igancio Mastandrea
- Dotan Moskovich
- Lena Noifeld
- Roma Parik
- Chani Stossel
- Sabina Pozzi
- Anabel Eckerling
- Sharon Yehuda
- Tamir Baram
- Ligal Aizik
The event was in the presence of CBRC committee members, students, mentors, and the Weinstat Family.
We are grateful for the generous donation made by Esther and Zvi Weinstat, that made this event possible.
We hope to continue this tradition in the future in order to encourage innovation and excellence in cancer research at Tel-Aviv University.
Awards for outstanding abstracts at CBRC 2021 2nd semester virtual seminar >>
Student Seminar 2020 |
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On September 8th 2020, CBRC held the 2nd Zvi and Ester Weinstat Student Award Symposium.
The generous support by Mr. Zvi Weinstat to the "Cancer Biology Research Center" enabled nine Tel-Aviv University young graduate students whose research is focused on cancer, to win an award for outstanding research achievement.
- Salam Bashir - Dr. Vered Padler Karavani
- Ettai Markovits - Prof. Gal Markel
- Shivang Sunil Parikh - Prof. Carmit Levy
- Nimrod Rappoport - Prof. Ron Shamir
- Sharon Grisaru - Prof. Ariel Munitz
- Anna Gutkin - Prof. Dan Peer
- Dina Morian - Prof. Adit Ben- Baruch
- Diana Rasoulouniriana - Dr. Yaron Carmi
- Nadine Santana Magal - Dr. Yaron Carmi
We hope that the next annual event on 2021 will be a proper and worthy award ceremony in the presence of the donor.
We thank all the submitting students and hope to see you again next year!
Student Seminar 2019 |
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On June 17th, 2019, CBRC held the first Ester and Zvi Weinstat Student Award Symposium.
The symposium was the result of the generous support by Mr. Zvi Weinstat to the "Cancer Biology Research center" for the promotion of research and education in the field of cancer.
This generous donation enabled six young graduate students from the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Life Sciences to win an award of 6000 NIS for outstanding research achievement.
The symposium was opened with a lecture by Dr. Raya Leibowitz followed by presentations given by the winning students.
We hope to make this symposium an annual event to encourage graduate students to further advance cancer research at Tel-Aviv University
We thank all our guests and hope to see you again next year!
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