The 4th Annual Data for Health (D4H) Conference
The 4th Annual Data for Health (D4H) Program
October 25, 2026
Senate Building (Building 71), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
08:30–09:00 | Registration, coffee, and poster setup
09:00–09:30 | Welcome and opening remarks
Prof. Raz Jelinek, BGU Vice President
Prof. Reli Hershkovitz, Dean of Health Sciences
09:30–11:10 | Session 1
09:30 | Eytan Ruppin (Cedars-Sinai)
Keynote: Towards fast and accessible precision oncology
40 minutes
10:10 | Yakir Reshef (Brigham and Women’s, Harvard)
Powerful and accurate case-control analysis of spatial molecular data
20 minutes (17 + 3)
10:30 | Livnat Jerby (Stanford)
From natural to engineered immune responses
20 minutes (17 + 3)
10:50 | Noam Shomron (Tel Aviv University)
AI in Genomics
20 minutes (17 + 3)
11:10–11:40 | Coffee break
11:40–13:10 | Session 2
11:40 | Yanay Ofran (Biolojic Design, Bar-Ilan University)
Keynote: Using AI to design novel therapeutics
30 minutes
12:10 | Yosi Shamay (Technion)
Generation of High Complexity Cancer Treatments with AI and Automation
20 minutes (17 + 3)
12:30 | Erez Levanon (Bar-Ilan University)
A-to-I editing: From RNA Biology to RNA Therapy
20 minutes (17 + 3)
12:50 | Victor Novack (Soroka University Medical Center)
AI - Train with the best
20 minutes (17 + 3)
13:10–14:30 | Lunch and posters
Vote for the best poster.
14:30–16:30 | Session 3
14:30 | Nitzan Rosenfeld (Barts Cancer Institute, UK)
Keynote: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster: Where Next for Liquid Biopsies
30 minutes
15:00 | Robert Moskovitch (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Explainable Real Time Continuous Event Prediction with Temporal Conceptualization
20 minutes (17 + 3)
15:20 | Ora Furman (Hebrew University)
Fixing misregulated (protein) communication using AI (protein design) models
20 minutes (17 + 3)
15:40 | Short talks
Six five-minute talks selected from submitted abstracts.
30 minutes
16:10 | Flash talks
Eight two-minute poster teasers from submitted abstracts.
20 minutes
16:30–17:00 | Coffee and posters
Final voting for the best posters.
17:00–17:40 | Closing keynote
Dana Pe’er (Sloan Kettering, HHMI)
The AI Microscope: Learning Tissue Organization and Mechanism
40 minutes
17:40–17:50 | Concluding remarks and announcement of the winning posters
Organizing committee: Ofir Cohen, Mark Last, Tal Shay
Advisory board: Asaf Zaritsky, Isana Veksler-Lublinsky et al.
