Prof. Noam Shomron

Genomics and human diseases

Our body is built from billions of cells. How each cell and organ interpret DNA is still a great puzzle Understanding the molecular interactions within our cells, in health and disease, would greatly improve our ability to diagnose and treat complex human diseases, such as cancer and neurological disorders. Prof. Shomron and his team scan thousands of genes in order to pinpoint the ones that play a major role in tumor development and metastasis. His team has shown that http://www.tau.ac.il/~nshomron by injecting nanoparticles with small molecules into the tumor the spread within the body is halted. In another study, using a simple blood test combined with artificial intelligence, the team has shown that circulating DNA and RNA molecules in the blood can indicate early development of neurological diseases, their stage, and the spectrum of the disease. This information could be used to devise a novel therapeutic approach.

Prof. Shomron, PhD, heads the Functional Genomic Team at the Faculty of Medicine, after training at MIT. He leads a multidisciplinary team of scientists that develops computational methods for parsing big-data in the bio-medical field using Artificial Intelligence. Shomron is Editor of the ‘Deep Sequencing Data Analysis’ book; Director of ‘Rare-Genomics’ Israel (NPO); Academic Director of ‘ScienceAbroad’ (NPO); and, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Variantyx, which provides clinical interpretation of whole genome sequences.