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Ron Unger is a full professor in the Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Science in Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He earned his Ph.D. at the department of Computer Science in the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1990, and spent a post-doctoral period at the University of Maryland. His research interests are in the interface between computer science and biology, namely in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. Prof. Unger is the founder and the head of the computational biology program in Bar-Ilan University, and is involved with several national committees to advance Bioinformatics in Israel. Prof. Unger was the president of the Israel Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ISBCB). His publication list contains more than 75 scientific papers, two textbooks and several book chapters.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD
Oct 1986 → Oct 1990
Award Date: 1 Oct 1990
Master
Oct 1984 → Oct 1986
Award Date: 1 Oct 1986
Bachelor
Feb 1980 → Oct 1984
Award Date: 1 Oct 1984
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Targeting the Cargo Receptor TMED9 as a Therapeutic Strategy Against Brain Tumors
Daoud Sarsour, A., Kinstlinger, S., Nizar, R., Amos, N., Arbeli, N., Kazimirsky, G., Bronshtein-Berger, I., Fried, I., Unger, R., Brodie, C. & Dvela-Levitt, M., 23 May 2025, In: Cells. 14, 11, 21 p., 772.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TblncRNA-23, a long non-coding RNA transcribed by RNA polymerase I, regulates developmental changes in Trypanosoma brucei
Galili-Kostin, B., Rajan, K. S., Ida Ashkenazi, Y., Freedman, A., Doniger, T., Cohen-Chalamish, S., Waldman Ben-Asher, H., Unger, R., Roditi, I., Tschudi, C. & Michaeli, S., 18 Apr 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 1, 3697.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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CAGI, the Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation, establishes progress and prospects for computational genetic variant interpretation methods
The Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation Consortium, 22 Feb 2024, In: GENOME BIOLOGY. 25, 1, 46 p., 53.Bar-Ilan University, Weizmann Institute of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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ElemeNT 2023: an enhanced tool for detection and curation of core promoter elements
Adato, O., Sloutskin, A., Komemi, H., Brabb, I., Duttke, S., Bucher, P., Unger, R. & Juven-Gershon, T., 4 Mar 2024, In: Bioinformatics. 40, 3, 5 p., btae110.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fer governs mTORC1 regulating pathways and sustains viability of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells
Schrier, I., Slotki-Itzchakov, O., Elkis, Y., Most-Menachem, N., Adato, O., Fitoussi-Allouche, D., Shpungin, S., Unger, R. & Nir, U., 14 Aug 2024, In: Frontiers in Oncology. 14, 13 p., 1427029.Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University
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