Department News

Updates, achievements, and milestones from our department

BEST ABSTRACT awards: Naomi Makoviy and Tal Sinai

Very proud of our PhD candidates Naomi Makoviy and Tal Sinai, both from the Ehud Ohana group for wining 2 out of 3 BEST ABSTRACT awards at Metabolism-IL meeting, part of the amazing Mind-IL initiative.
Great work!

Retreat 2026

For our annual departmental retreat we visited Jerusalem. We had a stimulating visit to the national library, an educating tour of the Knesset and a delicious time at Machne Yehuda market.

Looking forward to next year!

Meet our youngest faculty member!

Danielle Karo-Atar is a Zuckerman Faculty Scholar and her lab studies host-pathogen interactions with the goal of improving intestinal health.

Excellence in Research Awards

The Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology extends its congratulations to this year’s awardees of Ben-Gurion University’s Excellence in Research Awards Prof. Esti Yeger-Lotem, Prof. Assaf Rudich and Prof. Ehud Ohana.

Our trainees are standing out in excellence!

Our department is extremely proud of this year’s awardees of The Kreitman Dean’s Certificate of Excellence Noa Yehoshua (Ehud Ohana lab) and Idan Farber (Eldad Zielberstein lab).

In addition, Ilana Teboul’s (Ayelet David lab) poster at the 2026 ILANIT conference was selected out of over 1000 posters! for the Best Poster award, we could not be any prouder.