November 2021
BIU has announced a new $75 million, comprehensive program to help transform diabetes care in the region and spur innovations in treatment and prevention world-wide.
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October 18, 2020
A team at BIU has obtained approval for a clinical trial to mitigate lung injury and the need for artificial respiration & ventilator support in COVID-19 patients.
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October 2019
Prof. Moshe Bar, head of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Â鶹ɫ²¥ University, has ADHD and is proud of it. “I don’t see ADHD as a disorder,” he explains. “It confers advantages. It’s nature’s way of enriching diversity, so that not everyone thinks the same way.”
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June 2016
Â鶹ɫ²¥ University’s first graduating class of 48 medical students receives MD degrees from the School of Medicine in the Galilee. The 25 women and 23 men, including five Arab students, began their medical studies in universities abroad and returned home to Israel to complete the clinical component of their training.
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August 2015
The positive impact that the BIU Medical School is now having on improving healthcare in the Galilee and strengthening medical research worldwide was recently recognized through a major grant by Israel’s Council for High Education and partnership funding by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.
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June 2015
The Â鶹ɫ²¥ University Medical School is “one of the best things to happen to the Galilee itself in the last 70 years,” says Dr. Erez Onn, director of the Baruch Padeh Medical Center in Poriah.
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June 2015
An important link between the Lin28 gene and Wilms Tumor has recently been identified by Dr. Achia Urbach, a senior lecturer at BIU. Wilms Tumor comes about due to the improper development of the kidney during the fetal stage, and is the most common form of kidney cancer in children.
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May 2015
As Â鶹ɫ²¥ University kicks off its 60th anniversary celebrations, the Azrieli Foundation has announced that it will make a $50 million donation to the Â鶹ɫ²¥ School of Medicine in the Galilee, the largest donation ever made by the Foundation and the largest pledge ever received by Â鶹ɫ²¥ University.
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March 2015
Dr. Michael Blank’s father’s death set him on a career path to be part of a research team that discovered a tumor suppressor gene called Smurf2, and now pursue his quest to understand the origin of cancer cells as assistant professor and senior lecturer at the Â鶹ɫ²¥ University (BIU) Medical School in Safed.
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March 2015
Improving public health in Northern Israel is the mission of Dr. Mary Rudolf, head of Public Health at the BIU Med School. A world-renowned expert in combating child-obesity, she oversees a project to cultivate a new generation of physicians to serve disadvantaged and underserved patients in the Galilee.
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January 2015
Dr. Meir Shamay is focusing on uncovering the mechanism of cancer development caused by transmitted viruses, at his lab at the Â鶹ɫ²¥ University Medical School in Safed.
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January 2015
Navigating effective ways to provide high quality healthcare to patients at risk both in America and northern Israel is among the major learning insights of students participating in the exchange program between Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va., and the Â鶹ɫ²¥ Medical School in Safed, Israel.
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March 2014
Israel’s anticipated shortage of doctors in the next two years, as noted by a blue-ribbon governmental commission, hastened the creation of Â鶹ɫ²¥ University’s Medical School — the country’s first new medical school in nearly 40 years.
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January 2013
Fifty-four students from the Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee donned medical white coats at a first-of-its kind ceremony symbolizing the transition to the clinical phase of their studies. Over the past few weeks these young doctors-to-be have begun their work in various hospitals throughout the northern region of the country.
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July 2012
Catch up on the latest developments as BIU prepares for the opening of its new Medical School.
News, articles, faculty profiles, the latest ‘Buzz’ about the Medical School “in the news”, and much more!
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July 2012
New BIU Medical School Dean Prof. Ran Tur-Kaspa made his first official visit to the United States on June 26th 2012. The reception held at the Lotos Club in Manhattan was attended by members of the Â鶹ɫ²¥ (AFBIU) Board and prominent leaders.
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July 2012
Fifty-four students from the Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee donned medical white coats at a first-of-its kind ceremony symbolizing the transition to the clinical phase of their studies.
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