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Medicine
The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, established in 1969, has trained nearly 3,500 MDs and hosts a broad biomedical research program. Research ranges from the genetics of vision and hearing to synapse maintenance, aging and neurodegeneration, and the evolution of antibiotic resistance.
Research areas
Genetics · Neuroscience · Evolution and antibiotic resistance · Cancer research · Biomedical research
Graduate coordinator
Shiri Shporen – musmach@technion.ac.il
Example researchers
- Tamar Ben-Yosef – Genetics of Vision and Hearing Research Laboratory: inherited retinal degenerations.
- Noam Ziv – Synaptic Tenacity and Maintenance Laboratory: how synapses maintain their properties, and the link to forgetting, aging and neurodegeneration.
- Ruth Hershberg – evolutionary processes of mutation and natural selection: antibiotic resistance, cancer and pathogen evolution.
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