Dean of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Prof. Yaron Shav-Tal

Faculty members work to train the next generations of scientists in the State of Israel and lead them to integrate into advanced research in academia, the biotech industry, health institutions, and government ministries.

Prof. Shav-Tal received his third degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science and completed his post-doctorate at the Einstein School of Medicine in New York. Then, in 2005, he joined the Faculty of Life Sciences and the research staff at the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials of Bar-Ilan University.

Prof. Shav-Tal has published over 100 articles and won many awards and research grants, including prestigious research grants from the ERC and the NIH.

Prof. Shav-Tal's research group focuses on the activity of genes within living cells and during the life of the RNA molecule. The uniqueness of the research is in the ability to follow the activity of a single gene in a living cell in real-time, and the RNA molecules formed from active genes through fluorescent labeling of the mRNA molecules and tracking them with the help of new and sensitive microscopic technologies.

Studies of this type make it possible to understand genetic activity in health and disease and to investigate the processes that go wrong in pathological conditions.