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There are six research centers affiliated with IMRIC: The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology; The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huji.ac.il/dataj/controller/ihoker/MOP-DEPARTMENT_DESCRIPTION_LINK?department_no=000665|title=The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty Research Interests|website=www.huji.ac.il|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> The Brain Disease Research Center - BDRC;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il/En/academicUnits/imric/BDRC/Pages/default.aspx/|title=Brain Diseases Research Center|website=medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> The Autism Center;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il/En/academicUnits/imric/Pages/Autism.aspx/|title=Autism|website=medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> The Hubert H. Humphrey Center for Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huji.ac.il/dataj/controller/ihoker/MOP-DEPARTMENT_DESCRIPTION_LINK?department_no=000191|title=The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty Research Interests|website=www.huji.ac.il|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> and The Rogoff Center for Research in Physiology.
There are six research centers affiliated with IMRIC: The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology; The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huji.ac.il/dataj/controller/ihoker/MOP-DEPARTMENT_DESCRIPTION_LINK?department_no=000665|title=The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty Research Interests|website=www.huji.ac.il|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> The Brain Disease Research Center - BDRC;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il/En/academicUnits/imric/BDRC/Pages/default.aspx/|title=Brain Diseases Research Center|website=medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> The Autism Center;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il/En/academicUnits/imric/Pages/Autism.aspx/|title=Autism|website=medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> The Hubert H. Humphrey Center for Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huji.ac.il/dataj/controller/ihoker/MOP-DEPARTMENT_DESCRIPTION_LINK?department_no=000191|title=The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty Research Interests|website=www.huji.ac.il|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> and The Rogoff Center for Research in Physiology.


== Awards and Prizes ==
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==Notable Faculty==

==== [[Israel Prize]] ====
Prof. [[Howard Cedar]] 1999

Prof. Marcel Elkayem 2001

Prof. [[Aharon Razin]] 2004

Prof. Shaul Feldman 2005

==== '''[[The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture|The Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture]]''' ====
Prof. Moshe Abeles 2004

Prof. Eli Keshet 2006

Profs. [[Howard Cedar]] & [[Aharon Razin|Aaron Razin]] 2009

Prof. Baruch Minke 2010

==== '''TEVA Founders Prize'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tevapharm.com/corporate_responsibility/teva_awards/founders_prize_research_grants/|title=Teva Founders Prize and Research Grants{{!}} Teva pharmaceutical Social Responsibility - Teva Founders Prize and Research Grants|website=www.tevapharm.com|access-date=2016-09-20}}</ref> ====
Prof. Moshe Abeles 1995

Prof. Yehezkel Bernoltz 2000

Prof. Yinon Ben-Nerya 2007

Prof. Ofer Mandelboim 2008

Prof. Orna Amster-Choder 2013

Prof. Yehudit Bergman & Prof. Eli Keshet 2014

==== '''[[Gairdner Foundation International Award]]''' ====
Profs. [[Howard Cedar]] & [[Aharon Razin|Aaron Razin]] 2011

==== '''Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/fellowship-prize/rothschild-prize|title=|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> ====
Prof. Hagai Bergman 2016

==== '''The Rappaport Prize'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rappaport-prize.com/en/index.php/theprizes/researcherprize|title=The Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the Field of Biomedical Research - Rappaport Prize|website=rappaport-prize.com|access-date=2016-09-20}}</ref> ====
Prof. Yinon Ben-Neriah 2016

==== '''Boyalife Science & Science Translational Medicine Award in Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/prizes/boyalife|title=Boyalife, Science & Science Translational Medicine Award in Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine|website=Science {{!}} AAAS|access-date=2016-09-20}}</ref> ====
Dr. Yosef Buganim was honored by the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] (AAAS), the prestigious journals [[Science (journal)]] and [[Science Translational Medicine]], and the Boyalife industrial research consortium<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.boyalifegroup.com/business.asp?id=101|title=BoyaLife|website=www.boyalifegroup.com|access-date=2016-09-20}}</ref>, for his work in stem cells and regenerative medicine<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Buganim|first=Yosef|date=2016-06-17|title=Back to basics|url=http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6292/1401|journal=Science|language=en|volume=352|issue=6292|pages=1401–1401|doi=10.1126/science.aag1215|issn=0036-8075|pmid=27313030}}</ref>.

==== '''Kaye Innovation award''' ====
Prof. Yechezkel Barenholz 1995

Dr. Arie Dagan & Prof. Shimon Gatt 2008

Prof. Raymond Kaempfer 2013

Noa Kaynan 2013

Prof. Ofer Mandelboim 2015

Pinchas Tsukerman 2016

==== '''[[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] (Columbia University)''' ====
Profs. [[Howard Cedar]] & [[Aharon Razin|Aaron Razin]] 2016

A grant submitted to the prestigious '''"National Network of Excellence" (NNE) of TEVA''' by Baruch Minke, Alex Binshtok and Shy Arkin (Aided by Dr. Ben Katz) entitled "Investigating the first human loss of function mutation in TRPV1: the development of effective new therapy for inflammatory pain" was among the few that were selected for funding

==== '''Fourth annual Grant for Multiple Sclerosis Innovation'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grantformultiplesclerosisinnovation.org/en/index.html|title=Grant for Multiple Sclerosis Innovation award - Home|last=juwimm|website=www.grantformultiplesclerosisinnovation.org|access-date=2016-09-20}}</ref> ====
Prof. Yuval Dor and his partners research proposal "Cell-type specific methylation patterns in circulating DNA: Towards the clinical application of an innovative blood-based biomarker for oligodendrocyte and neuronal damage in multiple sclerosis" was one of four selected to share a €1 million grant from [[Merck Group|Merck]].

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== Notable Faculty ==


*{{ill|he|Hagai Bergman|חגי ברגמן}} professor, Department of Medical Neurobiology
*{{ill|he|Hagai Bergman|חגי ברגמן}} professor, Department of Medical Neurobiology

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The Institute for Medical Research, Israel-Canada, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
המכון למחקר רפואי ישראל-קנדה, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים
TypePublic
Established2008
ChairpersonHaya Loberboum-Galski
Students3400
Undergraduates2800
Postgraduates600
Location
Jerusalem
,
Israel
CampusUrban
NicknameIMRIC
AffiliationsUNIMED
Websitemedicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il/En/academicUnits/imric

The Institute for Medical Research, Israel-Canada (IMRIC) is a research institute that is part of the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is synonymous with its Medical School. It was founded in 2008, and conducts fundamental and applied research in the field of biomedicine. The Institute has five departments: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Developmental Biology and Cancer Research; Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research; Medical Neurobiology; and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics.

In addition to its research, IMRIC provides a bachelor's degree course in Biomedical Sciences (B.Sc.Med),[1] teaches the basic sciences for the undergraduate, pre-clinical programs of the Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine and is the largest educational institute in Israel for graduate studies in Biomedical Sciences having about 600 master and doctoral students. The doctoral programs offer a wide range of multidisciplinary research areas in basic medical science and related fields and collaborative programs with clinicians from the Hadassah Medical Center.

Since 2012, the chair of the institute has been Professor Haya Loberboum-Galski who took over from Professor David Lichtstein, the chair from 2008-2012.

IMRIC is supported in part by the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University (CFHU)[2] through the establishment of scholarships and research funding. In addition, the CFHU aids in creating key collaborative medical research partnerships between Canada and Israel, such as the Alex U. Soyka Pancreatic Cancer Research Project,[3][4][5] the Grafstein Network for Cancer Research[6] the Canada-Israel International Fetal Alcohol Consortium[7][8] and the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Cancer Genomic and Immunotherapy Program.

Departments

  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (24 research groups)
  • Developmental Biology and Cancer Research (23 research groups)
  • Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research (14 research groups,) The center was established in 1968 as the first department of Immunology at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School and named after the US senator, Frank Lautenberg.
  • Medical Neurobiology (30 research groups)
  • Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (33 research groups)

Teaching Divisions

The Institute provides a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences.[9] In addition its faculty teaches the basic sciences for the entire undergraduate, pre-clinical programs of the Faculty of Medicine.[10] These include programs for Medicine,[11] Military Medicine,[12] Dentistry,[13] Biomedical Sciences,[14] Pharmacy[15] and Nursing.[16] In 2016, more than 2800 students were enrolled in these programs.[17] IMRIC is also the largest education institute in Israel for graduate studies in Medical Sciences having about 600 master (MSc)[18] and doctorate (PhD)[19] students.

Research Hubs and Centers

Research Hubs gather together scientists and clinicians focusing on a specific subject or disease, integrating various scientific and medical disciplines. Each hub consists of researchers from IMRIC, Hadassah Medical Center, The School of Pharmacy, The School of Public Health, Shaare Zedek Medical Center and more. The following research hubs are currently active:

  1. Epigenetics and Common Human Diseases[20]
  2. The Tumor and its Microenvironment[21]
  3. Mitochondria[22]
  4. Developmental Processes, Malformations and Diseases[23]
  5. Cardiovascular Research[24]
  6. The Herbert and Dorothy Nadolny Cardio-Metabolic Diseases Research Hub[25]
  7. Microbe Brain Storming - MIBS[26]
  8. Muscle Degeneration Diseases[27]
  9. Virus-host Interactions and Viral Pathogenesis.

There are six research centers affiliated with IMRIC: The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology; The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases;[28] The Brain Disease Research Center - BDRC;[29] The Autism Center;[30] The Hubert H. Humphrey Center for Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research;[31] and The Rogoff Center for Research in Physiology.

Awards and Prizes

Israel Prize

Prof. Howard Cedar 1999

Prof. Marcel Elkayem 2001

Prof. Aharon Razin 2004

Prof. Shaul Feldman 2005

The Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture

Prof. Moshe Abeles 2004

Prof. Eli Keshet 2006

Profs. Howard Cedar & Aaron Razin 2009

Prof. Baruch Minke 2010

TEVA Founders Prize[32]

Prof. Moshe Abeles 1995

Prof. Yehezkel Bernoltz 2000

Prof. Yinon Ben-Nerya 2007

Prof. Ofer Mandelboim 2008

Prof. Orna Amster-Choder 2013

Prof. Yehudit Bergman & Prof. Eli Keshet 2014

Gairdner Foundation International Award

Profs. Howard Cedar & Aaron Razin 2011

Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences[33]

Prof. Hagai Bergman 2016

The Rappaport Prize[34]

Prof. Yinon Ben-Neriah 2016

Boyalife Science & Science Translational Medicine Award in Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine[35]

Dr. Yosef Buganim was honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the prestigious journals Science (journal) and Science Translational Medicine, and the Boyalife industrial research consortium[36], for his work in stem cells and regenerative medicine[37].

Kaye Innovation award

Prof. Yechezkel Barenholz 1995

Dr. Arie Dagan & Prof. Shimon Gatt 2008

Prof. Raymond Kaempfer 2013

Noa Kaynan 2013

Prof. Ofer Mandelboim 2015

Pinchas Tsukerman 2016

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (Columbia University)

Profs. Howard Cedar & Aaron Razin 2016

A grant submitted to the prestigious "National Network of Excellence" (NNE) of TEVA by Baruch Minke, Alex Binshtok and Shy Arkin (Aided by Dr. Ben Katz) entitled "Investigating the first human loss of function mutation in TRPV1: the development of effective new therapy for inflammatory pain" was among the few that were selected for funding

Fourth annual Grant for Multiple Sclerosis Innovation[38] 

Prof. Yuval Dor and his partners research proposal "Cell-type specific methylation patterns in circulating DNA: Towards the clinical application of an innovative blood-based biomarker for oligodendrocyte and neuronal damage in multiple sclerosis" was one of four selected to share a €1 million grant from Merck.

Notable Faculty

  • he professor, Department of Medical Neurobiology
  • Howard Cedar, emeritus professor, Department of Developmental Biology & Cancer Research
  • David Lichtstein, professor, Department of Medical Neurobiology; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
  • Aharon Razin, emeritus professor, Department of Developmental Biology & Cancer Research

References

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  2. ^ "The Canadian Centres at Hebrew University | CFHU". cfhu.org. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  3. ^ "Uncovering the molecular events driving pancreatic cancer". Medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  4. ^ "Canadian and Israeli researchers meet to discuss underlying mechanisms that drive pancreatic cancer". News-medical.net. 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  5. ^ http://oicr.on.ca/news/news-releases/new-canada-israel-research-partnership-identify-molecular-drivers-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer
  6. ^ "The Hon. Jerry and Carole Grafstein Network for Cancer Research at IMIRC". imric.org. 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  7. ^ http://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?archive=&item=10943
  8. ^ http://imric.org/research/collaborations/research/fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder-research
  9. ^ "IMRIC's academic programs".
  10. ^ "Welcome to the Faculty of Medicine". Medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
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  13. ^ "The Hebrew University - Hadassah School Of Dental Medicine". Dental.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  14. ^ "Academic program for Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences (BSc.Med) - 0602". Medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  15. ^ "Welcome To The School Of Pharmacy". Medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  16. ^ "School of Nursing". Medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  17. ^ "Teaching Divisions". Medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  18. ^ "Academic program for the Master's degree Biomedical sciences (602)". Medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  19. ^ "Doctoral studies". Medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
  20. ^ "Cancer epigenetics". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  21. ^ "Cancer Research Hub". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  22. ^ "Mitochondria". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  23. ^ "Developmental Processes, Malformations and Diseases". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  24. ^ "Cardiovascular research". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  25. ^ "Metabolic disease". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  26. ^ "The "Microbe Brain Storming Hub" (MIBS)". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  27. ^ "Research hub for muscle degeneration diseases". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  28. ^ "The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty Research Interests". www.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  29. ^ "Brain Diseases Research Center". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  30. ^ "Autism". medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  31. ^ "The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty Research Interests". www.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  32. ^ "Teva Founders Prize and Research Grants| Teva pharmaceutical Social Responsibility - Teva Founders Prize and Research Grants". www.tevapharm.com. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  33. ^ http://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/fellowship-prize/rothschild-prize. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  34. ^ "The Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the Field of Biomedical Research - Rappaport Prize". rappaport-prize.com. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  35. ^ "Boyalife, Science & Science Translational Medicine Award in Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  36. ^ "BoyaLife". www.boyalifegroup.com. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
  37. ^ Buganim, Yosef (2016-06-17). "Back to basics". Science. 352 (6292): 1401–1401. doi:10.1126/science.aag1215. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 27313030.
  38. ^ juwimm. "Grant for Multiple Sclerosis Innovation award - Home". www.grantformultiplesclerosisinnovation.org. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
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