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Bar-Ilan University and Sheba Medical Center establish joint research institute for biotech innovation with $120 million investment

Bar-Ilan University
Business Announcement

Bar-Ilan University and Sheba Medical Center are establishing a $120 million joint biotech research institute at Sheba’s new Health Tech Valley in Ramat Gan. Modeled after the U.S. NIH, the institute will bridge academia, healthcare, and industry to accelerate the translation of lab discoveries into clinical treatments. Research will focus on cancer, 3D organ printing, AI-driven medical data, robotics, genetic engineering, and microbiome science, with the aim of fast-tracking personalized medicine, new drugs, and advanced devices.

Leaders from both institutions stressed the institute’s role in positioning Israel as a global hub for biotech innovation, a magnet for billions in investment, and a powerful growth engine for the economy.

Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, Director General of Sheba Medical Center: “The healthcare system is a powerful growth engine for the economy and industry."

Prof. Arie Zaban, President of Bar-Ilan University: "Biotechnology has become a focus of investment, drawing billions of shekels annually”.

Researchers develop proximity labeling based antigen amplification technology

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. HAN Shuo from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a novel cell-surface protein engineering strategy called Proximity Amplification and Tagging of Cytotoxic Haptens (PATCH), which applies proximity labeling to immunomodulation for the first time.

Journal: Nature

Research as reconciliation: Oil sands and health

Canadian Medical Association Journal
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Canada’s government and health science sectors should commit to researching the health effects of oil sands tailings, as previous research suggests that air, water, and land contaminations negatively affect local people’s health, authors urge in a CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) commentaryhttps://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.240643.

Journal: Canadian Medical Association Journal

Both weights and HIIT offer health benefits for cancer survivors

Edith Cowan University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has revealed that both resistance training and high intensity interval training (HIIT) produced sufficient levels of myokines to help in the fight against cancer.

Journal: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

New hurdle seen to prostate screening: primary-care docs

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Black men interviewed for this study related that, in many instances, their providers dismissed the PSA test as unnecessary and did not have the background knowledge that Black men are highly at risk for this type of cancer

Journal: JAMA Network Open
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, U.S. Department of Defense

Rice scientists develop ‘molecular magnifying glass’ to help identify diseases earlier

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A novel strategy developed at Rice University allows scientists to zoom in on tiny segments of proteins inside living cells, revealing localized environmental changes that could indicate the earliest stages of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and cancer. The study, published in Nature Chemical Biology on Sept. 10, also shows promise for drug screening that targets protein aggregation diseases.

Journal: Nature Chemical Biology
Funder: Welch Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense, John S. Dunn Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation

Developmental biologist Maria Jasin wins the 2025 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

Rockefeller University
Grant and Award Announcement

Jasin's fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations. She will be presented with the award on September 16.

Using deep learning for precision cancer therapy

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Altuna Akalin and his team at the Max Delbrück Center have developed a new tool to more precisely guide cancer treatment. Described in a paper published in “Nature Communications,” the tool, called Flexynesis, uses deep neural networks and evaluates multi modal data.

Journal: Nature Communications

Circulating tumor cell-derived organoids: Unveiling mechanisms of tumor metastasis and establishing a new platform for precision therapy

Sichuan International Medical Exchange and Promotion Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Recently, a review titled "Circulating tumor cell-derived organoids: current progress, applications, and future" was published in MedComm - Future Medicine. The article systematically summarises the research progress, application scenarios, and future challenges of organoids derived from circulating tumor cells (CTCs). This study comprehensively reviews the biological characteristics of CTCs, strategies for their isolation and enrichment, optimisation techniques for in vitro culture systems, and their significance in basic research, translational medicine, and clinical applications.

Journal: MedComm – Future Medicine

Equivalent outcomes when AI and dermatologists assess skin cancers

University of Gothenburg
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A simple AI model has been shown to perform on a par with experienced dermatologists when assessing the aggressiveness of a common form of skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma. The research was headed by the University of Gothenburg.

Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology