PhD, Public Health, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2019
01/2019-07/2019
Research: IBD sharing on the X chromosome
Next position: post-doc, Harvard Medical School
Shay Tzur
PhD, Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2013
12/2016-12/2018 (approximately; part time)
Research: Jewish genetics, mtDNA and Y chr
Avner Halevy
PhD, Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation, University of Maryland, 2011
08/2016-12/2016 (part time)
Research: phenotypic effects of runs of homozygosity
PhD students
Shamam Waldman
BSc, Psychobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012
MA, Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2016
11/2016-11/2022
Thesis title: Development and Application of Haplotype-Based and Other Analyses of modern and Ancient DNA to Reconstruct Historical Demographic Events
Next position: post-doc, Harvard University
Hila Fridman
BSc, Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009
MSc, Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011
Joint with Ephrat Levy-Lahad, Shaare Zedek Medical Center
12/2017-03/2021, graduated with distinction
Thesis title: Clinical Utility of Next Generation Sequencing Genomic Tests in Determining Risk Assessment for Healthy Individuals
Next position: post-doc, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Master’s students
Daria Triffon
BSc Pharm, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joint with Itay Chowers, Hadassah Medical Center
05/2020 – 10/2022
Thesis title: Prediction of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the Israeli Population Based on Polygenic Risk Scores
Idit Tessler
MD-MPH, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joint with Ronen Durst and Dan Gilon, Hadassah Medical Center
03/2017 – 06/2019
Thesis title: Identification of Genes Associated with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Among Families and Sporadic Cases
Ehud Karavani
BSc, Computer Science and Computational Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2016
12/2017 – 06/2019 (part time)
Thesis title: Evaluating the utility of screening human embryos for polygenic traits
Next position: IBM research
David Raveh-Brawer
MD, Tel-Aviv University
08/2016 – 11/2018 (part time, graduated cum laude)
Faculty’s excellent thesis award
Thesis title: Improving the empiric antimicrobial treatment: Trend analysis of bacterial resistance, construction of a model for prediction of resistance and early detection of outbreaks of bacterial resistance
Undergraduates and research interns
Hila Rotbard
Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10/2021-8/2022
Sa’ar Armon
Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
09/2019-06/2021
Dana Golan
Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
08/2020-06/2021
Adam Green
A visitor from Washington University, USA
11/2019
Kobi Landau
Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MD thesis)
08/2016-11/2019
Itamar Medved
Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
04/2018-06/2019
Or Yaacov
Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
02/2016 – 12/2017
Next position: post-doc, Medicine, New York University
Noam Bar
Computer science and computational biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10/2015 – 08/2016
Next position: MSc, Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Gavriel Fialkoff
Computer science and computational biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10/2015 – 08/2016
Next position: MSc, Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Adina Barchichat
Bioinformatics, Jerusalem College of Technology
02/2016 – 07/2016
Dana Baril
Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem