Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1999
Researcher
bio-informatics, genetics, data-mining, Precision Cancer Medicine, Precision Oncology, Data Sciences |
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- 1993 – 2001 Weizmann Institute of Science, Ph.D in Plant Sciences with Prof. A. Levy. Thesis title: "The evolution of the Ac/Ds transposon family". 1992 - 1993 Weizmann Institute of Science, M.Sc in Plant Sciences with Prof. A. Levy. Switched to direct Ph.D. course. 1989 - 1992 Ben Gurion University. B.Sc. in Biology. (with Distinction).
- Bio-informatics, systems biology, medical informatics
Breast cancer recurrence
Gender Differences and Cancer
- Sources of human phenotypic variation (with a special emphasis on drug response)
- Cancer stratification (precision oncology)
Major expertise and techniques in the lab
- Data mining using supervised and unsupervised methods
- Next-generation sequence analysis (DNA/RNA/Other)
- General bioinformatics methods, with a focus on nucleic acids
Publications and funding summary / representative publications and grants
- Rodon et. al. (2019) "Genomic and transcriptomic profiling expands precision cancer medicine: the WINTHER trial". Nature Medicine 25:751–758
- Gordon, M., Moser, A. and Rubin, E. (2012) “ Unsupervised Analysis of Classical Biomedical Markers: Robustness and Medical Relevance of Patient Clustering Using Bioinformatics Tools”. Plos One, 7(3): e29578
- Angel Porgador – Early cancer diagnosis
- The WIN consortium - Precision Oncology and clinical trials
Suggested multi-disciplinary research project / research focus topics
- Personalized medicine: finding new diagnostic tools
- Cancer genomics: evaluating the contribution of specific pathways or genes
Looking for expertise / project
- Genetic research of cancer
- Precision Oncology
- Machine learning