Oncology Hub
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Vision:
To become a beacon multidisciplinary oncology research group
Missions:
To facilitate translation and clinical research to improve the care of the Negev population.
To maximise the cancer research capabilities by providing financial and technical support.
To enhance cutting-edge cancer research at BGU and SMC
SERVICES
Cytotoxic drug
Request cytotoxic drugs.
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Animal protocol
BioBanking
Collaboration with the BioBanking enable researchers to collect tumor samples.
For Helsinki protocols and further information please contact:
Yael - yaeles@clalit.org.il
Clinical Collaborations
Pathological analysis
Clinical collaborations and clinical samples
Breast Cancer - Dina Lev - dinal@assuta.co.il
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Pancreas and colon - Itzhak Avital - itzhakavi@clalit.org.il and Abu Freha- abufreha@yahoo.de
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Head and neck and Thyroid - Ben-Zion Joshua - BenzionJ@clalit.org.il
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Blood Cancer -Ory Rouvio - rubio@bgu.ac.il
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Skin - Kriger dr.krieger@gmail.com
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Blood Bank- Oleg Pikovsky- OlegPi@clalit.org.il
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Brain cancers- Tehila - tehilakaisman@gmail.com
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Gynecologic Oncology - Mihai mihaime@clalit.org.il, and Amit Meir
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Urine and kidny - Keren Rabinovich kerenro@clalit.org.il
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Pediatric Hematology - guybe@clalit.org.il
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Research Expertise
Collaborations
Drug development - Niv Papo - papo@bgu.ac.il, David Stepansky
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Drug Delivery - Ayelet David - ayeletda@bgu.ac.il, Yossi Kost
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Bioinformatics - Eitan Robin - erubin@bgu.ac.il​
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Single cell sequencing - Esti Yeger Lotem estiyl@bgu.ac.il and Tal Shay - talshay@bgu.ac.il
Biosensors - Hadar Ben Yoav -
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Exosomes - Tomer Cooks, Elie Beit-Yannai, Nir Peled
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RNA splicing - Tal Shay and Roi Gazit
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Stem cells - Roi Gazit and Itzhak Avital
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Cancer signling - Etta Livneh, Moshe Elkabets, Misha Dlinko
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Check-point blockers - Moshe Elkabets and Ronnie Apte
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CAR-T cells - Angel Porgator and Roi Gazit
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Familial Cancer - Ruti Parvari
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Autophagy - Assaf Rudich
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Cancer Evolution - Bart Kotler
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Long no-coding RNA - Barak Rotblat
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RNA Translation - Barak Rotblat
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Preclinical model - and murine cancer models - Roi Gazit and Moshe Elkabets
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Natural product - Jacob Gopas
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Tumor immunology - Ronnie Apte, Angel Porgador, Moshe Elkabets, Elena Voronov and Roi Gazit
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Protein engineering - Niv Papo
Mitochondria - Varda Shusan Barmatz
RNAi - Isana Veksler Lubinsky
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Telomerase and topoisomeases - Ester Priel
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Hub Members
Jacob Gopas - jacob@bgu.ac.il
Etta Livneh - etta@bgu.ac.il
Roi Gazit - gazitroi@bgu.ac.il
Eithan Rubin - erubin@bgu.ac.il
Esti Yeger Lotem- estiyl@bgu.ac.il
Ronnie Apte - rapte@bgu.ac.il
Angel Porgador - angel@bgu.ac.il
Ruti Parvari - ruthi@bgu.ac.il
Ayelet David - ayeletda@bgu.ac.il
Alex Rabinovich - drrabino@bgu.ac.il
Elie Beit-Yannai - bye@bgu.ac.il
Ruthie Bechor - ruthieb@bgu.ac.il
Barak Rotblat - rotblat@bgu.ac.il
Yosef Kost - kost@bgu.ac.il
Michi Meirovich - mihaime@clalit.org.il
Ben-Zion Joshua - BenzionJ@clalit.org.il
Irit Allon - allonirit1@gmail.com
Ory Rouvio - rubio@bgu.ac.il
Assaf Rudich - rudich@bgu.ac.il
Varda Shushan Barmatz - vardasb@bgu.ac.il
Itzhak Avital - avitalit@bgu.ac.il
Shimon Ben-Shabat - sbs@bgu.ac.il
Uti Netz - urinetz@gmail. com
Ester Priel - priel@bgu.ac.il
Nir Peleg - drnp@012. net. il
Laila C. Roisman - dr.roisman@gmail.com
Merav Fraenkel - meravfra@gmail.com
Noa Hazut - HazutNoa@clalit.org.il
Tehila Kaisman - tehilakaisman@gmail.com
Uri Yoel - uriy@clalit.org.il
Julio Lozanocetina - juliolozanocetina@gmail.com
Uri Grenbouim - urigre1@gmail.com
Isana Veksler-Lublinsky - isana18@gmail.com
Amit Meir - Amitme@clalit.org.il
Yosef Kost - JosephK2@clalit.org.il
Tal Shay - talshay@bgu.ac.il
Hadar Ben-Yoav - benyoav@bgu.ac.il
Kreiger - dr.krieger@gmail.com
Elena Vornov - elena@bgu.ac.il
Misha Danilenko - misha@bgu.ac.il
Bert Kotler - kotler@bgu.ac.il
Dina Lev - dinal@assuta.co.il
Keren Robinzon - kerenro@clalit.org.il
David Stepansky - davidst@bgu.ac.il
Oled Pikovsky - OlegPi@clalit.org.il
Alex Braiman - braiman@bgu.ac.il
Victor Novak - victorno@clalit.org.il
Ehud - Ehudda@clalit.org.il
Elena Voronov - Elena@bgu.ac.il
Tomer Cooks - Cooks@bgu.ac.il
Guy Bek - Guybe@clalit.org.il
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Hub Secretary -
Haya Sarusi - hayas@bgu.ac.il
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BGN
Ora Horovitz - orabgn@bgu.ac.il
Lior Carmon - l_carmon@yahoo.com ;
Galit Mazooz-Perlmuter - galitmp@bgu.ac.il
Anat Avni- anatsav@bgu.ac.il
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BioBank
Yael - yaeles@clalit.org.il
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Hub Coordinators
Moshe Elkabets - moshee@bgu.ac.il
Itzhak Avital - itzhakavi@clalit.org.il
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2016
Year Established
65
Members
23
Collaborations
3
Services
PROJECTS
Lung cancer
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Angel Porgador
Nir Peled
Varda Shushan-Barmatz
Tomer Cooks
Head and neck, Esophagus, thyroid, and skin cancers
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Ben-Zion Joshua
Moshe Elkabets
Uri Yoel
Merav Frenkel
Kriger
Ruti Parvari
Liquid cancers
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Roi Gazit
Oleg Pikovsky
Jacob Gopas
Misha Dnilenko
Ory Rouvio
Guy Bek
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Brain cancer
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Barak Rotblat
Tehila Kaisman
Varda Shushan-Barmatz
GI cancers
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Ronnie Apte
Elena Voronov
Itzhak Avital
Tomer Cooks
Uri Netz
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Breast and Gyn cancers
Etta Livneh
Ronnie Apte
Ester Priel
Dina Lev
Alex Rabinovich
Niv Papo
Ayelet David
Alex Briaman
Elena Voronov
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Advice expert for patent and commercial product
Project development - Lior Carmon​
Commercial - Galit Mazooz Perlmuter and Ora Horovitz
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CONTACT
Inquiries
For any inquiries, questions or commendations, please call: 0532323987 or fill out the following form
Head Office
Faculty of Health Science
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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