Earlier this year, the Alrov Center for Digital Medicine announced a call for grants with the intention to support collaborative and translational research in digital medicine.

Many thanks to all the applicants and the reviewers - We appreciate your participation.

We are especially grateful to the members of the Grant Committee for their hard work and dedication.

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We are excited  to annaonce the awardees:

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Flagship projects

(each with total funding of up to 500,000 NIS, for 2-year projects).

 

• Prof. Galit Aviram, MD, Department of Radiology, TASMC

       Prof. Hayit Greenspan, Faculty of Engineering, TAU

       Research title: "PE detection and delineation using multimodal fusion and generative AI"

 

• Prof. Riva Tauman, MD, The Sieratzki-Sagol Center for Sleep Medicine, TASMC

       Prof. Yuval Nir, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, TAU

       Research title: "Breaking the code of sleep in children with autism: Machine learning-based detection of deep invisible 

       interictal  epileptiform discharges"

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•  Dr. Alexis Mitelpunkt, MD, Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation and Division of  Intensive Outpatient Rehabilitation, TASMC

        Prof. Lior Wolf, School of Computer Science, TAU

        Research title: "Unlocking the clinical notes vault: Using LLMs to turn unstructured data to structured data"

 

• Dr. Amit Benady, MD, Orthopedic Department, Levin Center of Surgical Innovation and 3D Printing, TASMC

       Prof. Hila May, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, TAU

       Research title: "Predicting hip fractures from proximal femoral shape: Developing a new diagnostic tool”

 

Proof-of-Concept projects

(each with a total funding of up to 100,000 NIS, for 1-year projects).

 

• Prof. Anat Mirelman, Laboratory for Early Markers of Neurodegeneration, Center for the study of Movement Cognition and Mobility; Department of neurology, TASMC

       Prof. Yael Hanein, Faculty of Engineering, TAU

       Research title: “Home-based testing and automated detection of REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD)"

 

• Dr. Shir Azrielant, MD, Division of Dermatology, TASMC

       Prof. Irit Gat-Viks, Faculty of Life Sciences, TAU

       Research title: “Comprehensive histological atlas of inflammatory skin diseases"

 

•  Dr. Neomi Singer, Department of Neurosurgery & Sagol Brain Institute, TASMC

        Prof. Noam Ben Eliezer, Faculty of Engineering, TAU

        Research title: "Predicting diffuse glioma spread trajectories from resting state and structural connectivity patterns"

 

•  Dr. Genela Morris, Neurosurgery Unit, TASMC

        Dr. Inbal Maidan, Neurological Institute, TASMC

        Dr. Anatoly Khina, Faculty of Engineering, TAU

        Research title: "Patient-centric DBS programming tool for Parkinson’s disease: Minimizing adverse events, preserving function"

 

• Prof. Nidal Muhanna, MD, The Head and Neck Cancer Research Laboratory, The Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery, TASMC

       Prof. Natan Tzvi Shaked, Faculty of Engineering, TAU

       Research title: "Liquid-biopsy cancer detection: Saliva sampling for early diagnosis of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma         using novel quantitative imaging and AI"

 

• Prof. Amir Sonnenblick, MD, The Oncology Division, TASMC

       Prof. Roded Sharan, School of Computer Science, TAU

       Research title: "Bootstrapping gene panel sequencing data for predicting response to therapy”

 

• Dr. Hadar Kolb, MD, Department of Neurology, TASMC

       Dr. Or Perlman, Faculty of Engineering, TAU

       Research title: “Quantitative and rapid characterization of multiple Sclerosis lesions using AI boosted biophysics guided                     molecular MRI”                

 

• Dr. Yifat Alcalay, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Division of clinical Laboratories, TASMC

       Dr. Reut Noham, Faculty of Engineering, TAU

       Research title: “Facilitating rapid and cost-effective diagnosis using a data-driven approach”

 

• Dr. Amir Sternheim, MD, Orthopedic Oncology Department, TASMC

       Prof. Moran Artzi, Pre-surgical Brain Mapping Service, Sagol Center, TASMC

       Prof. Zohar Yosibash, Faculty of Engineering, TAU

       Research title: “Towards a fully autonomous system for high-fidelity identification of risk of femoral fractures in the elderly and           in cancer patients using CT-scans”

 

 

Congratulations to the awardees!

 

Alrov Center for Digital Medicine Grant Committee:

Prof. Ron Shamir (TAU), Prof. Gil Ast (TAU), Prof. Dov Hershkovitz (TASMC), Prof. Hagit Baris Feldman (TASMC)

 

Alrov Center for Digital Medicine Steering Committee:

Prof. Elhanan Borenstein (TAU), Prof. Karen Avraham (TAU), Prof. Eli Sprecher (TASMC), Ms. Liat Nadai Arad (TASMC)

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