Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences Researchers Awarded 2025 Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Grants

Research & Grants

23 July 2025

The Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University proudly congratulates its researchers who have been awarded competitive grants from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) for 2025. These prestigious grants recognize outstanding and innovative research across a broad spectrum of biomedical and health-related disciplines.

Awardees:

  • Sagi-Eisenberg, Ronit
    Mechanism, regulation, and importance of the interactions between mast cell secretory granules and the endolysosomal system

  • Attali, Bernard
    Inactivation gates of voltage-dependent potassium channels Kv7.1: mechanisms and regulation by PIP2, Ca2+-calmodulin, and other modulators

  • Itkin, Tomer

    1. A spinning disk confocal microscopy system enabling high-resolution real-time 3D imaging of complex organelle platforms including the vascular system

    2. The role of mesenchymal cells from failing hearts in modulating lung vasculature that supports lung cancer development

  • Dor, Salomon
    Gamma-Mobile-Trio systems: a new player in bacterial DNA mobility

  • Zaidel-Bar, Ronen
    Discovering mechanobiological principles of epithelial tube formation by studying the excretory canal of C. elegans

  • Carmi, Yaron
    Understanding the role of antibody receptor-expressing T cells in cancer, the mechanism regulating their cytotoxic activity, and their application in enhancing immunotherapy for solid tumors

  • Dubovi, Ilana
    Characterizing patient engagement in digital symptom management education: a multi-metric approach

  • Hayek, Samah
    A multidisciplinary approach to evaluating the short- and long-term effects of chemotherapy exposure during pregnancy on the offspring

  • Portnoy, Sigal & Gal Raz (Faculty of the Arts)
    Motor learning levels up: enhancing transfer learning through gamified virtual reality strategies influencing brain predictive patterns

  • Borenstein, Elhanan
    Methods for integrating multivariate data in microbiome research

These grants reflect the excellence, diversity, and international impact of the research conducted at the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, and its ongoing commitment to advancing medical and health sciences in Israel and beyond.

 

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