March 2024
Mazal Tov Einat for the birth of your son :)
December 2023
Mazal Tov Dafna for the birth of your girl :)
October 2023
Congratulations Reut and Dafna for winning the council for higher education scholarship!
September 2023
Congratulations Tal on the birth of your son :)
February 2023
Congratulation Alon for winning the Best Poster Prize at the Bar Ilan Nano Conference, in 2023.
February 2023
Our research was elected as one of the Influence of the Year in Bar Ilan University
February 2023
Congratulations Reut for winning the Teva National Fellowship for Bio-Innovators
December 2022
Jewish Business News has featured our research as one of the Top Ten Cancer Treatment Breakthroughs That Came Out Of Israel In 2022
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December 2022
General Electric has featured our research as one of the 5 coolest things on earth this week!
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November 2022
A glance into our lab
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September 2022
Mazal Tov Alon for the birth of your son
June 2022
Mazal Tov Reut on you marrige!
May 2022
Congratulations Reut for electing as an excellent teacher!
February 2022
An hour with Orit on science and more (in Hebrew), a one by one in Van Leer Institute.
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February 2022
Congratulations Eli for winning the Teva National Fellowship for Bio-Innovators
October 2021
Congratulation Eli for winning the best poster prize at the Nano Il 2021 conference!
October 2021
Orit invited lecture at the Nano Il 2021 conference at Jerusalem
July 2021
Nano Museum at Bar Ilan University
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June 2021
One moment from the exciting ceremony of the Rector Excellence and Innovation in Science Award
June 2021
Our recent publication on new platform we developed for nerve regeneration is in the news
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June 2021
Thank you HFSP for funding our neurons and aging grant with our colleagues in the US, Japan and Italy.
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June 2021
congratulation Reut for winning the Rector prize for excellent students!
June 2021
Proud to be involved in Rakia mission to the space
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April 2021
Congratulations Orit and all lab members for awarded the Rector Excellence and Innovation in Science award. We are proud!
April 2021
Exciting news! Our project on resolving neuronal damage was selected for funding by Human Frontier, opens new possibilities with great partners.
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February 2021
Mazal Tov Michal on your new baby girl :)
January 2021
Orit in the news
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November 2020
We're so proud of Dr. Netanel Ofer, Dr. Sharon Cohen, Dr. Elina Haimov Talmoud and Dr. Jonathan Giron for becoming PhD graduates!
November 2020
Please listen to our own Netanel Ofer who just graduated and moved on to Columbia University to Yuste lab for his postdoc
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November 2020
Congratulations Tal for winning the council for higher education scholarship.
September 2020
Congratulations Orit for the promotion to a full professor!
September 2020
Mazal Tov Dafna on your new baby girl :)
May 2020
Mazal Tov Tal on your new baby girl :)
March 2020
Mazal Tov Elina on your new baby girl :)
March 2020
Mazal Tov Alon on your new baby girl :)
February 2020
Mazal tov on your marriage Michal!
December 2019
Congratulations Tal for winning the Women in Science scholarships from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
December 2019
Congratulations Dafna for winning the Ministry of Science and Technology M.Sc. scholarship award!!
November 2019
Dr. Sharon Cohen and Dr. Jonathan Giron have completed their PhDs. We wish them the best of luck on their future endeavors.
June 2019
We're so proud of Dr. Michal Bouhnik-Marcus and Dr. Neta Zilony for becoming PhD graduates!
April 2019
Dr. Netanel Ofer completed his Ph.D. in Orit Shefi's Lab, and we're proud to announce that he's now a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University
April 2019
Dr. Raj Kumar completed his PBC Postdoctoral position in Shefi's Lab, and we're proud to announce that he's now a Postdoc research fellow at the University of Michigan!
March 2019
Ph.D. students Sharon Cohen and Jonathan Giron presented their research at the BINA 3D Bio-design: Augmenting Nature Workshop
March 2019
Professor Orit Shefi was featured in a Ynet article regarding women choosing meaningful careers
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February 2019
Orit presented at the Israeli Medical and Biological Engineering Society's (ISMBE) Annual Meeting regarding a magneto-chemical approach to CNS regeneration
February 2019
Ph.D student Ganit Indech represented Prof. Shefi's lab and Sharoni's lab in Bar-ilan's Nanoart competition--their Magnetic Neural Network is currently under construction and will be exhibited in Bar-ilan's Nano museum
December 2018
Professor Orit Shefi was featured in Israel's Women magazine! The article describes her success in the laboratory, i.e. how she and her lab induced nerve cell regeneration post-injury
December 2018
Congratulations Alon on the birth of your baby girl!
December 2018
Congratulations on tying the knot Michael!
December 2018
Mazal tov on your marriage Chen!
August 2018
Congratulations Netanel for winning the IBRO-PERC, The Brain Prize and FENS stipend award! We are so proud of you!
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August 2018
Congratulations Reut Plen for winning the Ministry of Science and Technology M.Sc. scholarship award!!
May 2018
Congratulations Merav on submitting your Ph.D. thesis! We wish you the best of luck during your postdoc abroad
May 2018
Congratulations Michal for being awarded the very prestigious 2018 Rappaport Prize, given to outstanding doctoral students in biomedical research!
March 2018
Congratulations to all who took part in the The Neural Interfaces Meeting at Bar-Ilan University!
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December 2017
Orit guest lectured at the ISBE conference in Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv
December 2017
Ph.D. student Sharon and the rest of Orit Shefi's Lab wish you all a very Happy Hanukkah
December 2017
Ort High School students isolated RNA, synthesized cDNA and ran PCR with the help and guidance of our Ph.D. students Michal and Neta
November 2017
Congratulations Merav on completing your Ph.D.! We are all so proud of you and wish you the best of luck in your Postdoc work
October 2017
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Raj Kumar officially received his Ph.D. Degree from IIT Mandi in India
August 2017
We congratulate Koby Baranes and Michal Marcus for not only publishing their work in the Journal of Advanced Healthcare Materials, but for also being featured on the inside front cover of the special issue entitled Biomimetic Interfaces in Biomedical Devices!
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July 2017
We are excited to announce that Dr. Raj Kumar, a postdoc in our lab, earned the VATAT (PBC) Fellowship for outstanding postdoctoral researchers from China and India! Way to go Raj!
July 2017
Elina eloquently presented her research, Gold Nanoparticles Conjugated to mTHPC for Efficient Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer, at the CRS Annual Meeting & Exposition in Boston
June 2017
Neta presented her Alzheimer's research at the TERMIS Conference in Switzerland
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March 2017
Orit was the chair of the Israeli delegation at the Ministry of Science and Technology's China-Israel Joint Committee on Innovation Cooperation in Beijing
February 2017
Wensheng Shi visited the lab
January 2017
Michal was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space for her interdisciplinary work. Congratulations Michal!
November 2016
Society of Neuroscience San Diego Conference -We congratulate Sharon and Neta for their great work!
October 2016
Michal and Merav won BINA scholarships for their excellence in research
October 2016
Michal and Neta represented our lab on Faculty Retreat Day
September 2016
Orit was featured in a LADY GLOBES article as one of the seven leading researchers in Israel for her brain research!
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September 2016
Mazal Tov Merav on your new baby girl, Naomi :)
July 2016
Merav published her work on magnetic gels in Nano Letters and was awarded the
Mordecai and Monique Katz Scholarship. Way to go, Merav!
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June 2016
Congratulations Noa Alon and Koby Baranes for being the first students to earn their PhD in our lab. Certainly well deserved!
May 2016
Orit enjoyed meeting with Prof. Insung S. Choi from the KAIST Institute in Korea
March 2016
Orit was featured in a Maariv Article regarding Women and Gender on Women's Day
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March 2016
Orit presented her work regarding, Engineering 3D Platforms for Promoting and Directing Neuronal Regeneration at the ISMBE Conference