Grant Recipients
ICRF has awarded more than $78 million in funding to support over 2,500 grants to outstanding cancer researchers at all leading institutions in Israel as well as collaborative research partnerships between Israeli and North American investigators. Many of our grantees are responsible for major cancer research breakthroughs and discoveries.
Recipient(s) | Institution | Grant Type | Research Topics | Grant Status |
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Sheera Adar, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Research Career Development Award | Blood Cancers, Cancer Metastasis, Genetics and Genomics, Lung Cancer, Skin Cancer, Women’s Cancers | Active |
Ronen Alon, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Project Grant | Cancer Metabolism, Lung Cancer, Melanoma | Active |
Ido Amit, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | ICRF-Alan B. Slifka Foundation-Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation Max Ritvo, Alan Slifka & Desiree Dato Fund for Fusion-Oncoprotein Cancers and Metastasis | Metastasis | Active |
Gil Ast, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Project Grant | Computational Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Men’s Cancers, RNA Metabolism | Active |
Michal Baniyash, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Research Professorship Grant | Colorectal Cancer, Oncogenesis | Active |
Sivia Barnoy, RN, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Project Grant | Clinical and Translational Research, Colorectal Cancer, Women’s Cancers | Active |
Irit Ben-Aharon, MD, PhD | Rambam Health Care Campus | Project Grant | Cancer and Pregnancy, Chemotherapy, Experimental Therapeutics | Active |
Shay Ben-Aroya, PhD | Bar-Ilan University | Acceleration Grant | Basic Science, Oncogenesis | Active |
Uri Ben-David, PhD | Tel Aviv University | ICRF-Israel Ministry of Science and Technology Gesher Award for Academic Excellence in the Field of Cancer Research | Animal Modes of Cancer, Bone Cancers, Brain Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Colorectal Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Genetics and Genomics, Lung Cancer, Men’s Cancers, Pancreatic Cancer, Renal Cancer, Skin Cancer, Women’s Cancers | Active |
Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Project Grant | Cancer Metastasis, Clinical and Translational Research, Colorectal Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Human Subjects, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Inflammation and Cancer | Active |
Yinon Ben-Neriah, | Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School | Research Professorship Grant | Colorectal Cancer, Stem Cells | Active |
Michael Berger, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Project Grant | Men’s Cancers, Pancreatic Cancer, Pediatric Cancer, Skin Cancers, Animal Modes of Cancer, Bone Cancers, Brain Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Colorectal Cancer, Human Subjects, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Metabolism and Cancer, Renal Cancer, Women’s Cancers | Active |
Yehudit Bergman, PhD | Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School | Research Professorship Grant | Breast Cancer, Cancer Stem Cells, Colorectal Cancer, Inflammation and Cancer | Active |
Michal Brunwasser-Meirom, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Experimental Therapeutics | Active |
Yaron Carmi, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Research Career Development Award | Animal Modes of Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Cell Signaling, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Inflammation and Cancer, Model Organisms, Skin Cancer | Active |
Howard Cedar, MD, PhD | Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School | Research Professorship Grant | Genetics and Genomics, Oncogenesis | Active |
Aaron Ciechanover, MD, DSc | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Research Professorship Grant | Inflammation and Cancer, Oncogenesis, Ubiquitin System | Active |
Cyrille Cohen, PhD | Bar-Ilan University | ICRF-Cancer Research Institute Immunotherapy Promise Grant | Blood Cancers, Cancer Metastasis, Colorectal Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Lung Cancer, Skin Cancer | Active |
Idan Cohen, PhD | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Research Career Development Award | Animal Modes of Cancer, Skin Cancer | Active |
Rony Dahan, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Research Career Development Award | Cancer Metastasis, Immunology and Immunotherapy | Active |
Ofer Elhanani, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Clinical and Translational Research, Computational Biology, Drug Mechanisms and Development, Genetics and Genomics, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Skin Cancer | Active |
Neta Erez, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Project Grant | Animal Modes of Cancer, Breast Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Clinical and Translational Research, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Lung Cancer, Model Organisms | Active |
Tal Falick Michaeli, MD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Animal Modes of Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Colorectal Cancer, Epigenetics, Genetics and Genomics, Molecular Biology | Active |
Lucio Frydman, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Acceleration Grant | Cancer Metabolism, Deuterium Magnetic Resonance, Early Detection, MRI | Active |
Hava Gil-Henn, PhD | Bar-Ilan University | Project Grant | Animal Modes of Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Cell Signaling, Proteomics and Protein Structures, Women’s Cancers | Active |
Moshe Giladi, MD, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Research Career Development Award | Cancer Metastasis, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Lung Cancer, Metabolism and Cancer, Oncogenesis, Proteomics and Protein Structures | Active |
Yafit Gilboa, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Brause Family Initiative for Quality of Life Grant | Cancer-Related Cognitive Decline, Clinical and Translational Research, Quality of Life | Active |
Zvi Granot, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Project Grant | Cancer Metastasis, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Inflammation and Cancer | Active |
Shoshana Greenberger, MD, PhD | Chaim Sheba Medical Center | Project Grant | Lymphangiogenesis, Skin Cancer | Active |
Albert Grinshpun, MD, MSc | Hadassah Medical Organization | ICRF-Conquer Cancer (The ASCO Foundation) Career Development Award | Breast Cancer | Active |
Jacob Hanna, MD, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Research Professorship Grant | Experimental Therapeutics, Stem Cells | Active |
Erez Hasnis, MD, PhD | Rambam Health Care Campus | ICRF-Israel Ministry of Science and Technology Gesher Award for Academic Excellence in the Field of Cancer Research | Animal Modes of Cancer, Cell Signaling, Clinical and Translational Research, Computational Biology, Human Subjects, Pancreatic Cancer, Proteomics and Protein Structures | Active |
Emmilia Hodak, MD | Rabin Medical Center | ICRF-City of Hope Jacki and Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars’ Program Grant | Immunology and Immunotherapy, Lymphoma | Active |
Avi-Hai Hovav, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Project Grant | Animal Modes of Cancer, Carcinomas, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Oral Cancer | Active |
Noah Isakov, PhD | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | ICRF-City of Hope Jacki and Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars’ Program Grant | Animal Modes of Cancer, Blood Cancers, Cell Signaling, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Model Organisms | Active |
Lina Jaber, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Metabolism and Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer | Active |
Tomer Kalisky, PhD | Bar-Ilan University | Project Grant | Genetics and Genomics, Renal Cancer | Active |
Nathan Karin, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Project Grant | Animal Modes of Cancer, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Melanoma | Active |
Rotem Karni, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Len & Susan Mark Initiative For Ovarian And Uterine/MMMT Cancers Grant | Cancer Metastasis, Genetics and Genomics, Ovarian and Uterine Cancer, RNA Metabolism | Active |
Martin Kupiec, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Research Professorship Grant | Molecular Biology, Oncogenesis | Active |
Yaacov Lawrence, MBBS | Chaim Sheba Medical Center | Project Grant | Animal Modes of Cancer, Clinical and Translational Research, Experimental Therapeutics, Metabolism and Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer | Active |
Erez Levanon, PhD | Bar-Ilan University | ICRF-City of Hope Jacki and Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars’ Program Grant | Cell Signaling, Genetics and Genomics, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Intracellular Trafficking, Metabolism and Cancer, RNA Metabolism | Active |
Nir London, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Research Career Development Award | Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Drug Mechanisms and Development, Medicinal Chemistry, Melanoma, Proteomics and Protein Structures, Skin Cancer | Active |
Ofer Mandelboim, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Research Professorship Grant | Immunology and Immunotherapy | Active |
Katy Margulis, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Research Career Development Award | Metabolism and Cancer, Skin Cancer | Active |
Yifat Merbl, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Acceleration Grant | Immunology and Immunotherapy | Active |
Lirin Michaeli, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Cancer Treatment, Experimental Therapeutics, Proteomics and Protein Structures | Active |
Michael Milyavsky, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Project Grant | Genetics and Genomics, Leukemia, Pediatric Cancer | Active |
Ariel Munitz, PhD | Tel Aviv University | ICRF-City of Hope Jacki and Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars’ Program Grant | Cancer Metastasis, Immunology and Immunotherapy | Active |
Lior Nissim, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | ICRF-Cancer Research Institute Immunotherapy Promise Grant | Clinical and Translational Research, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Lung Cancer, Synthetic Gene Circuits | Active |
Oren Parnas, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Research Career Development Award | Human Subjects, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Inflammation and Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer | Active |
Ruth Perets, MD, PhD | Rambam Health Care Campus | Len & Susan Mark Initiative For Ovarian And Uterine/MMMT Cancers Grant | Experimental Therapeutics, Ovarian and Uterine Cancer | Active |
Avi Priel, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Brause Family Initiative for Quality of Life Grant | Cancer Pain, Clinical and Translational Research, Drug Mechanisms and Development, Inflammation and Cancer, Pain Management, Quality of Life | Active |
Yoram Reiter, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Project Grant | Animal Modes of Cancer, Blood Cancers, Immunology and Immunotherapy | Active |
Asya Rolls, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | ICRF-Cancer Research Institute Immunotherapy Promise Grant | Animal Modes of Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Inflammation and Cancer, Model Organisms | Active |
Rotem Rubinstein, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Research Career Development Award | Blood Cancers, Brain Tumors, Gastrointestinal Cancers, Lung Cancer, Oral Cancers, Skin Cancers, Cancer Metastasis, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Oral Cancer, Proteomics and Protein Structures | Active |
Maayan Salton, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Research Career Development Award | Experimental Therapeutics, Melanoma, RNA Metabolism, Skin Cancer | Active |
Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Research Professorship Grant | Brain Cancer, Breast Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Lung Cancer, Nanotechnology | Active |
Thomas Schultheiss, MD, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Project Grant | Cell Signaling, Intracellular Trafficking, Membrane Biology, Model Organisms, Oncogenesis | Active |
Idit Shachar, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | ICRF-City of Hope Jacki and Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars’ Program Grant | Multiple Myeloma | Active |
Yoav Shaul, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Research Career Development Award | Breast Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Cancer Stem Cells, Cell Signaling, Genetics and Genomics, Metabolism and Cancer | Active |
Yosef Shiloh, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Research Professorship Grant | Genetics and Genomics | Active |
Ziv Shulman, | Weizmann Institute of Science | Research Career Development Award | Immunology and Immunotherapy, Inflammation and Cancer, Melanoma, Pancreatic Cancer | Active |
Yonatan Stelzer, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Research Career Development Award | Animal Modes of Cancer, Cancer Biology, Cancer Stem Cells, DNA Methylation, Epigenetics, Genetics and Genomics, Model Organisms | Active |
Itay Tirosh, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Len & Susan Mark Initiative For Ovarian And Uterine/MMMT Cancers Grant | Cancer Stem Cells, Computational Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Ovarian and Uterine Cancer | Active |
Israel Vlodavsky, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Research Professorship Grant | Basic Research, Cancer Treatment, Clinical and Translational Research | Active |
Yosef Yarden, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Len & Susan Mark Initiative For Ovarian And Uterine/MMMT Cancers Grant | Immunology and Immunotherapy, Ovarian and Uterine Cancer | Active |
Gil Ast, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Project Grant | Computational Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Oncogenesis, RNA Metabolism | Non-active |
Gilad Bachrach, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Project Grant | BacterioOncology, Breast Cancer, Cancer Metastasis, Colorectal Cancer, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Oncogenesis | Non-active |
Adit Ben-Baruch, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Project Grant | Breast Cancer, Immunology and Immunotherapy | Non-active |
Ittai Ben-Porath, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | International Collaboration Grant | Inhibiting Tumor Growth | Non-active |
Itai Benhar, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Project Grant | Carcinomas, Clinical and Translational Research, Immunology and Immunotherapy | Non-active |
Limor Broday, PhD | Tel Aviv Univesity | Acceleration Grant | Cell Signaling, Genetics and Genomics, Lung Cancer, Model Organisms, Oncogenesis | Non-active |
Benjamin Dekel, MD, PhD | Chaim Sheba Medical Center | Acceleration Grant | Cancer Stem Cells, Clinical and Translational Research, Drug Mechanisms and Development, Genetics and Genomics, Pediatric Cancer, Renal Cancer, Stem Cells | Non-active |
Moshe Elkabets, PhD | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Research Career Development Award | Head and Neck Cancer | Non-active |
Yaron Fuchs, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Acceleration Grant | Skin Cancer | Non-active |
Noa Furth, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Blood Cancers, Brain Cancer, Cell Signaling, Chromatin, Epigenetics, Genetics and Genomics, Pediatric Cancer, Proteomics and Protein Structures | Non-active |
Naama Geva-Zatorsky, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Acceleration Grant | Colorectal Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Inflammation and Cancer | Non-active |
Ziv Gil, MD, PhD | Rambam Health Care Campus | ICRF-City of Hope Jacki and Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars’ Program Grant | Chemotherapy, Pancreatic Cancer | Non-active |
Zvi Granot, | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Research Career Development Award | Cancer Metastasis, Immunology and Immunotherapy | Non-active |
Avram Hershko, MD, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Research Professorship Grant | Ubiquitin System | Non-active |
Shai Izraeli, MD | Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel | ICRF-City of Hope Jacki and Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars’ Program Grant | Blood Cancers, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Pediatric Cancer | Non-active |
Igor Koman, PhD | Ariel University | Project Grant | Cancer Stem Cells, Cancer Treatment, Clinical and Translational Research, Drug Mechanisms and Development, Stem Cells | Non-active |
Asael Lubotzky, MD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Cancer Metastasis, Clinical and Translational Research, Computational Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Metabolism and Cancer | Non-active |
Neta Milman, PhD | Rambam Health Care Campus | Barbara S. Goodman Endowed Research Career Development Award for Pancreatic Cancer | Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pancreatic Cancer | Non-active |
Yitzhak Pilpel, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | Acceleration Grant | Computational Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Proteomics and Protein Structures | Non-active |
Gad Rennert, MD, PhD | Carmel Medical Center | ICRF-City of Hope Jacki and Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars’ Program Grant | Breast Cancer | Non-active |
Daniel Segal, PhD | Tel Aviv University | Project Grant | Brain Tumors, Eye Cancers, Renal Cancer, Drug Mechanisms and Development, Experimental Therapeutics | Non-active |
Yuval Shaked, PhD | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Project Grant | Cancer Metastasis, Clinical and Translational Research, Immunology and Immunotherapy, Inflammation and Cancer | Non-active |
Julia Shifman, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Project Grant | Cancer Metastasis, Computational Biology, Experimental Therapeutics, Protein Engineering, Proteomics and Protein Structures | Non-active |
Ravid Straussman, MD, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science | ICRF-City of Hope Jacki and Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars’ Program Grant | Lung Cancer, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | Non-active |
Reuven Wiener, PhD | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Research Career Development Award | Drug Mechanisms and Development, Experimental Therapeutics | Non-active |