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Project SPHERE to Fight Diabetes

November 2021

BIU has announced a new $75 million, comprehensive program to help transform diabetes care in the region and spur innovations in treatment and prevention world-wide.

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Raising The Bar

October 2019

Prof. Moshe Bar, head of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University, has ADHD and is proud of it. “I don’t see ADHD as a disorder,” he explains. “It confers advantages. It’s nature’s way of enriching diversity, so that not everyone thinks the same way.”

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New Compound Kills Cancer Cells

December 2018

BIU researchers have discovered that an enzyme normally found only in sperm cells is the same one that enables cancer cells to metastasize throughout the body, and devised a synthetic compound to disable it.

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Medical Nanotech Project

October 2017

With the potential of speeding cures for diseases as diverse as cancer, autism and eye disease, Bar-Ilan University Professor Rachela Popovtzer was chosen, from among dozens of research groups world-wide, to head up the European Union (EU) nTrack project, part of EU’s Horizon 2020 research program.

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Playing with SQUIDs

August 17, 2017

Why was a nice Jewish boy from Teaneck handling SQUIDs for seven weeks this summer? Don’t worry. He wasn’t working with the decidedly non-kosher shellfish. Ari Krischer was working in Dr. Beena Kalisky’s lab at Bar-Ilan, testing superconducting quantum interference devices.

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Medical School Partnerships

August 2015

The positive impact that the BIU Medical School is now having on improving healthcare in the Galilee and strengthening medical research worldwide was recently recognized through a major grant by Israel’s Council for High Education and partnership funding by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.

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Kidney Tumor Gene

June 2015

An important link between the Lin28 gene and Wilms Tumor has recently been identified by Dr. Achia Urbach, a senior lecturer at BIU. Wilms Tumor comes about due to the improper development of the kidney during the fetal stage, and is the most common form of kidney cancer in children.

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Shingles Research

June 2015

In what promises to be a major breakthrough in the treatment of shingles, scientists at Bar-Ilan have been the first to recreate the dormant/active behavior of the varicella zoster virus (VZV), which causes chicken pox. Shingles, which afflicts tremendous pain on millions of adults every year, is caused by a “similar” virus.

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