Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine held its end-of-year graduation ceremony and annual conference on Translational Research recently. Two of the international students stood out – Dr. Praveen Koganti, who graduated with a PhD, and Mahua Bhattacharya, who received a special award for her research poster. International Doctoral Student from India Graduates Nine PhD students graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in June this year – one of whom was an international student from New Delhi, India. Dr. Praveen Koganti received his doctoral degree (PhD) in Medical Sciences: Molecular and Cellular Cancer Biology. Dr. Koganti conducted his research in the laboratory of...

Israel’s Council for Higher Education and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities have announced the call for the “Excellence Fellowship Program for International Postdoctoral Researchers in Israel”. The application deadline is October 1, 2021. Through this initiative, Israel offers recent outstanding PhD graduates of all academic disciplines the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research in Israel with leading scientists and scholars in their field – and signifies Israel’s commitment to the promotion of international scientific collaborations and to the advancement of world-class research. Bar-Ilan University welcomes postdoctorate researchers who would like to join our excellent, well-known professors in a variety...

A multinational team of marine scientists set sail from Eilat to Sudan, kicking off a groundbreaking project to assess the health of corals throughout the Red Sea. The expedition is about “bridging science and diplomacy for the future of corals,” said Prof. Maoz Fine, of Bar-Ilan University and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences (IUI) in Eilat, who is co-directing the project. Read More.

Dr. Ephraim Lapid, a lecturer in Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Political Studies, talks about the paramilitary organization which shaped the State of Israel. Read More.

Finding a job is a challenge for everyone, but those with special needs face huge obstacles and their struggles and triumphs are the subject of a gripping and moving new reality series from Kan 11, an adaptation of a British series, Employable Me (in Hebrew, Tnu L’avod). Ofer Golan, a clinical psychologist specializing in autism at Bar-Ilan University, is one of the specialists who will help the participants find out where their skills lie and prepare them for interviews. Read More.

The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation has made the largest single donation in its history – NIS 180 million – to expand the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University and to promote teaching and research. Read More.

Some indirect connections can be made between climate change and COVID-19, say Israeli researchers. But Steve Brenner, a professor in the Geography and Environment Department at Bar-Ilan University says there is no definitive evidence or answer that it affects it one way or another. Read More.

Do individuals who got inoculated at the beginning of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign – just a little over six months ago – need to get another shot? Not so fast, according to Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the immunology lab at Bar-Ilan University. Read More.

Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and the University of Strasbourg in France have signed an agreement to offer the first-ever joint MSc in Chemoinformatics between an Israeli and French university. It is also the first-ever joint Master’s degree with an international university that Bar-Ilan University has established. Read Article    

Bar-Ilan University’s International School hosted a variety of interesting and successful virtual open days and information sessions for potential students from around the world over the past month. The numerous sessions kept everyone busy and connected, some of which were recorded for students who couldn’t attend. Read Article