News & Events
New Funding! Personal Research Grant, Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
The Benhamou lab is awarded the Personal Research Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) for the next 4 years! (2022-2026)
New Funding! New-Faculty Equipment Grant, Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
The Benhamou lab is awarded the New-Faculty Equipment Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
Congratulations to Dr. Raphael I. Benhamou for Winning the 2022 Alon Fellowship.
Congratulations to Dr. Raphael I. Benhamou from Institute for Drug Research ,School of Pharmacy on receiving the 2022 Alon Faculty Fellowship of Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE).
New publication- PNAS 2022
Drug discovery generally investigates one target at a time, in sharp contrast to living organisms, which mold ligands and targets by evolution of highly complex molecular interaction networks. We recapitulate this modality of discovery by encoding drug structures in DNA, allowing the entire DNA-encoded library to interact with thousands of RNA fold targets, and then decoding both drug and target by sequencing. This information serves as a filter to identify human RNAs aberrantly produced in cancer that are also binding partners of the discovered ligand, leading to a precision medicine candidate that selectively ablates an oncogenic noncoding RNA, reversing a disease-associated phenotype in cells.
Nano Center Annual Conference, 2022.
Every year, a two-day conference is held by the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The event provides an excellent opportunity to present the research of the Center's members and their students and enhances the mutual interactions, connections and discussions.
NANOMED BIOCONVERGENCE, 21 FEB 2022. School of computer science and engineering.
The field of BioConvergence, combines biology and engineering and is expected to develop at the national level