Hadassah BioMed Innovation Day

Hadassah BioMed Innovation Day brings together the Hadassah community and external ecosystem partners to showcase groundbreaking innovations emerging from the medical center.
The event will feature three tracks: Breakthrough Research, Applied Innovation, and Digital & AI Transformation, highlighting advances led by Hadassah researchers, clinicians, and healthcare professionals.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a poster competition presenting innovative projects and research.
The event is open to all Hadassah researchers, clinicians and nurses, as well as partners from industry and academia.
The event is powered by the Hadassah Research & Development Fund, Hadasit - Hadassah Innovation and Entrepreneurship company, and Chief Innovation Office of Hadassah Prof. Chaim Lotan.
AGENDA
8:30 – 9:00 – Registration and light refreshments
9:00 – 9:10 – Opening remarks – Dalia Itzik, Chair of the HMO Board of Directors, Prof. Yoram Weiss, Director General of the Hadassah Medical Organization
9:10 – 10:30 – Breakthrough Research at Hadassah (5 talks on recent prominent research)
09:10 – 09:15 – Opening remarks – Prof. Eyal Mishani, Director General, Research Fund and R&D Division

09:15 – 09:30 – "Lower airway microbiome effect on immune response in lung cancer"– Dr. Fares Darawshy, Pulmonary Institute

09:30 – 09:45 – "Beyond the microscope: quantitative histology and the next era of cancer subtyping"– Dr. Nir Pillar, Department of Pathology

09:45 – 10:00 – "The NK cell line YTS as a novel platform for cellular therapies" – Dr. Shlomo Elias, Department of BMT and Cancer Immunotherapy

10:00 – 10:15 – "Seeing in the dark: visual functions and brain mapping in rod-only vision"– Prof. Neta Levin, Department of Neurology

10:15 – 10:30 – "From the Field to the Lab: Evidence-Based Identification of Burnt Dental Remains"– Prof. Esi Sharon, Department of Dentistry

10:45 – 11:45 – Innovation in action (Applied research projects, startup talks and venture building perspective)
10:45 – 10:50 – Opening words – Amir Dagan, CEO Hadasit

10:50 – 11:05 – Keynote talk – “The future of BioTech in Israel” – Ram Waisbourd, Venture Partner, AION Labs, Co-Founder and former COO / CBO, 89bio

11:05 – 11:15 –JumpStart Pharma Project "Novel peptide therapy for IBD" – Dr. Jonathan Cohen, Oncology Department

11:15 – 11:25 – BioConvergence project – "Nanoparticles drug-delivery system for non-resectable pancreatic cancer" – Dr. Koby Goren, Surgical Technology Innovation Center

11:25 – 11:35 – Portfolio company in the spotlight – "The journey of CardioVia" – Ziv Menshes, CEO CardioVia
11:35 – 11:45 – Portfolio company in the spotlight – "The journey of Hopec Pharma" – Dr. Vladimir Yutkin, Urology Department, and Estee Rosen, CEO Hopec Pharma

11:45 – 12:00 – Coffee break and mingling
12:00 – 13:00 – Data and AI innovation (Infrastructure advancements, Data Research projects and industry perspective)
12:00 – 12:10 – "What is new in Hadassah’s Data Research Infrastructure"– Dorit Tzur, Head of the Data and AI unit

12:10 – 12:20 – "From Virtual Research Rooms to Global Discovery: Leveraging AI Across Hadassah and UK Biobank" Prof. Galit Almozhnino, Head of Big Biomedical Data Research Laboratory, Faculty of Dental Medicine

12:20 – 12:35 – Keynote talk: - Prof. Michal Rosen-Zvi, Head of AI for Drug Discovery and Translational Medicine at Merck Group

12:35 – 12:43 – "EpiMaster - software app for Corneal OCT Analysis” – Dr. David Smadja and Dr. Tomer Batash, Ophthalmology Department

12:43 – 12:52 – "Sonognostics: Connecting Data, Intelligence, and Care in OB/GYN" – Prof. Shay Porat, Department of OB/GYN

12:52 – 13:00 – "Deep Brief Application: Use Cases in Emergency Medicine" – Dr. Ahmad Naame, ER Department of Ein Kerem

13:00 – 13:10 – Relocation to Panama Hall
13:10 – 14:10 – Poster competition
13:10 – 14:10 – Lunch and mingling
14:10 – 14:30 – Poster competition results announcements and winning project presentation
14:30 – 15:00 Closing words and mingling
We look forward to welcoming you at Hadassah!