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Yissum is the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU). It is responsib

Yissum is the Technology Transfer company of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Our mission is to benefit society by converting extraordinary innovations and transformational technologies into commercial solutions that address our most urgent global challenges. We are leaders in innovation and experts in technology and evaluation acquisition strategies. Together with Hebrew University’s top resea

rchers, Yissum is bridging breakthrough academic research with scientific and commercial applications.

28/05/2026

🚀 A Historic Milestone for Jerusalem’s Innovation Ecosystem 🏙️

This week, Jerusalem officially launched a groundbreaking new chapter in Israeli innovation, healthcare, research, and entrepreneurship 🔬💡🏥. At a festive event held at the Gav-Yam complex on the Edmond J. Safra Campus of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Givat Ram 🎓, the city launched the first joint academic body of its kind in Israel, established as part of the Jerusalem Innovation District 🌍.

The initiative is a strategic collaboration between:
🏛️ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
🏥 Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem
⚙️ Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem (עזריאלי מכללה אקדמית להנדסה ירושלים)
📚 Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) - Lev Academic Center
Together with: Jerusalem Municipality & The Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA) 🏙️📈

This unprecedented platform bridges academia, healthcare, industry, and entrepreneurship 🤝 to promote applied research, tech commercialization, startup creation, human capital, and ecosystem connections 🌐.

The event was attended by:
👤 Moshe Leon, Mayor of Jerusalem; Prof. Oron Shagrir, Rector of the Hebrew University; Dr. Alon Stopel, Chairman of the Innovation Authority; Tzachi Namir, CEO of JDA; and leading figures from Israel’s ecosystem.

💬 Official Greetings:

📜 President Isaac Herzog: “The Jerusalem Innovation District is a promise that will propel Jerusalem forward. Its strength lies in the unique synergy created between the city’s institutions—science, engineering, medicine, entrepreneurship, and culture sharing one space.”

🏙️ Mayor Moshe Leon: “Jerusalem continues to strengthen its position as a global leader in innovation. The District creates a unique ecosystem where ideas become real solutions with international impact.”

🎓 Prof. Tamir Sheafer, President of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “This collaboration will create synergy between Jerusalem’s academic institutions. It will strengthen the scientific ecosystem and position the District as a central engine for growth.”

Pics: Dana Bar Siman Tov
Production: NITZOZOT PRODUCTIONS

המרכז הרפואי שערי צדק עזריאלי מכללה אקדמית להנדסה ירושלים המרכז האקדמי לב
עיריית ירושלים iTravelJerusalem Dana Bar Siman Tov ניצוצות הפקת אירועים

26/05/2026

💡 Great science doesn’t fail because of bad ideas.

It fails because crossing the “Valley of Death” between academia and industry is incredibly hard.

This week, we launched the HUJI PharmaLeap Seminar Series with our inaugural webinar, “Early Design for Crossing the Valley of Death,” featuring Gilead Raday, Founder & CEO of RAD Therapeutics.

Gilead shared valuable insights on how early translational design can reduce risk and strengthen the path from promising academic discoveries to industry-ready therapeutic opportunities.

The HUJI PharmaLeap Seminar Series, initiated by the Academia-Industry Relations Authority, Yissum | The Hebrew University Tech Transfer Company, and the Faculty of Medicine, was created to bridge applied academic pharma research with real-world drug development.

Through upcoming webinars and expert-led sessions, the series will provide researchers and graduate students with practical tools, industry perspectives, and clearer pathways for translating outstanding science into clinical and industrial impact.

Excited for what’s ahead.

💡Yissum.
Your Innovation. Our Journey. Shared Impact.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

20/05/2026

🧬 Why Does Life Prefer One Molecular “Hand” Over the Other? A New Quantum Discovery May Hold the Answer 🧬

A groundbreaking study led by Prof. Yossi Paltiel of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. Ron Naaman of the Weizmann Institute of Science offers a striking new explanation for one of science’s oldest mysteries: why life consistently selects one mirror-image form of molecules over the other.

Published in Science Advances, the research reveals that electron spin, a fundamental quantum property, may dynamically break molecular symmetry and influence how chiral molecules behave.

Many essential biological molecules exist in two mirror-image forms, known as enantiomers. Chemically, these forms are nearly identical, yet biology overwhelmingly favors only one version:
• Amino acids are almost exclusively “left-handed”
• Sugars are predominantly “right-handed”

For decades, scientists struggled to understand how this universal preference emerged.

🔬 The new study demonstrates that during dynamic electronic processes, electron spin interacts differently with opposite molecular enantiomers, creating measurable asymmetries between molecules previously thought to behave identically.

This work builds on the pioneering field of Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS), a phenomenon that has become one of the most exciting intersections of quantum physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science.

🚀 Why this matters
Beyond addressing a fundamental question about the origin of biological homochirality, the findings may open new directions for:
• Spintronics and quantum materials
• Molecular electronics
• Enantioselective chemistry
• Advanced sensing technologies
• Bio-inspired quantum systems

The study highlights how quantum-level spin effects may play a far more central role in biological and chemical systems than previously understood.

👏 Congratulations to Prof. Yossi Paltiel, Prof. Ron Naaman, and collaborators on this remarkable scientific achievement.

🤝 Yissum | The Hebrew University Tech Transfer Company invites companies, investors, and innovation partners in quantum technologies, advanced materials, chemistry, and life sciences to connect with us and explore emerging opportunities from frontier research at The Hebrew University.

🤝 Yissum.
Your Innovation. Our Journey. Shared Impact.

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3x5s2uv5

17/05/2026

🚀 Innovation Corner #7: Wrapping up the first season of Innovation Corner with KLA Israel President Ori Tadmor

What does it really take to power the AI revolution?

Behind every breakthrough in Generative AI stands an invisible world of semiconductors, advanced chip architectures, precision manufacturing, and engineering at extraordinary scale. Humanity keeps asking AI to do bigger things, while the semiconductor industry quietly performs technological sorcery in the background to keep it all running.

Researchers and students at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem are invited to join:

Behind the AI Revolution: From Silicon to Intelligence

🎤 Ori Tadmor
VP Operations, KLA
President, KLA Israel

📅 Wednesday, June 10, 2026
🕐 13:00
📍 Engineering Auditorium, Building A, Room 300
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Edmond J. Safra Campus

In this special closing meetup of the first Innovation Corner season, Ori will explore:
⚡ How AI is reshaping the semiconductor industry
⚡ The rise of specialized AI chip architectures
⚡ Advanced packaging technologies driving next-generation systems
⚡ The growing importance of process control, metrology, and analytics
⚡ The engineering challenges behind scalable and reliable AI infrastructure

With more than 30 years at KLA, Ori brings firsthand experience from the frontlines of one of the world’s most advanced and demanding industries. Since joining KLA in 1994 as a development engineer and becoming one of the first employees of KLA Israel, he has led multidisciplinary teams across hardware, optics, algorithms, software, engineering, and operations while working closely with leading semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.

Hosted by Yissum | The Hebrew University Tech Transfer Company, the Hebrew University’s Industry-Academia Relations Authority, and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences - ELSC.

Looking forward to closing the season with one of the leaders helping shape the technological foundation of the AI era.

Seats are limited. Advance registration required.

Register Now:
https://tinyurl.com/ezpxfam6

KLA Corporation The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

14/05/2026

🚀 HUJI PharmaLeap invites you to get the tools to turn academic discoveries into real-world therapies.

Too many breakthrough ideas never make it beyond the lab. Between promising research and patient impact lies the biotech “Valley of Death” where science, funding, regulation, and commercialization collide.

To help bridge that gap, the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Academia-Industry Relations, Yissum | The Hebrew University Tech Transfer Company, and the Faculty of Medicine are launching HUJI PharmaLeap - a new seminar series connecting researchers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders.

Through monthly webinars and expert-led discussions, participants will gain practical insights into:
🔹 Drug development
🔹 Translational and industry-oriented research
🔹 Regulation & commercialization
🔹 Working with investors and pharma partners
🔹 Advancing innovation from academia to clinical impact

📅 Opening session (online):
“Early Design for Crossing the Valley of Death”
🎙️ Gilead Raday, Founder & CEO, RAD Therapeutics Inc.
🗓️ May 19, 2026 | 16:00 | 💻 Zoom Webinar

🔗 Registration:
https://tinyurl.com/whr3df47

Join us in building a stronger bridge between groundbreaking research and industrial innovation.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

11/05/2026

🧠🤝 Harvard University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem are joining forces to advance NeuroAI.

The new collaboration between the Kempner Institute at Harvard University and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences - ELSC at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will bring together leading researchers in neuroscience, machine learning, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to explore one of science’s biggest questions: how intelligence works across biological and artificial systems. 🌍🔬💡

Through joint workshops, faculty engagement, and trainee exchange, the initiative will advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of brain science and AI and explore how insights from the brain can inspire more robust and efficient AI systems. 🧠⚡🤖

The collaboration builds on strong existing scientific ties between the two communities, including collaborations involving Prof. Haim Sompolinsky, Prof. Daphna Weinshall, and Dr. Jonathan Kadmon. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

🚀🌐 At Yissum, we congratulate the Kempner Institute at Harvard University and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences - ELSC at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on this exciting new NeuroAI collaboration, and look forward to supporting the groundbreaking research emerging from this partnership by helping connect transformative science with global innovation opportunities.

Harvard University
ELSC
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Haim Sompolinsky

07/05/2026

🚀 Breakthrough research. 🎓 Inspiring teaching. 🌍 Global recognition.

Yissum | The Hebrew University Tech Transfer Company proudly congratulates Dr. Or Ordentlich on receiving the 2026 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars. One of the most prestigious honors in the Information Theory community.

🔬 Dr. Ordentlich’s work bridges deep theoretical insight and real-world impact, spanning pure mathematics, core information theory, and cutting-edge AI systems. His contributions, including advances in lattice geometry and efficient inference for large language models, continue to shape the future of data science and communication.

👩‍🏫 Just as impressive is his impact in the classroom. At The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has transformed information theory into a cornerstone of the curriculum, mentoring a new generation of researchers who are already making their mark worldwide.

👏 We are proud to celebrate this outstanding achievement and the continued excellence it represents.

Congratulations, Or, on this well-deserved recognition.

Read More: https://tinyurl.com/2wdrccbp

Or Ordentlich
IEEE
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

05/05/2026

🚀 Wrapping up Innovation Corner Meetup #6 with IBM Research | The Reality Behind AI

What does it really take to turn AI from hype into real impact?

That was the focus of Innovation Corner Meetup #6, and the conversation delivered exactly that.

A big thank you to Dr. Aya Soffer, VP, AI Technologies at IBM Research and Director of IBM Research Israel, for an insightful and honest session that brought us closer to the realities of enterprise AI.

💡 Key takeaways from the session:

👉 AI is a strategic capability, not a magic tool
Successful adoption requires clear strategy, long-term thinking, and alignment with real business needs, not hype-driven experimentation.
👉 Bridging research and real-world impact
IBM’s approach highlights how deep scientific research can translate into scalable, enterprise-grade solutions that deliver measurable value.
👉 Managing expectations in a fast-moving landscape
AI does not deliver instant ROI. Sustainable success depends on balancing innovation speed with realistic timelines, governance, and readiness.
👉 From proof-of-concept to production
The real challenge is not building models, but deploying them reliably and at scale within complex organizational environments.
👉 Trust, transparency, and responsibility
Explainability, fairness, and trust are not “nice to have” features, they are essential for enterprise adoption.

What made this session particularly valuable was the candid discussion around the gap between expectations and reality, and what organizations must do to close it.

🔜 Coming up next: Innovation Corner Meetup #7
We’re excited to host Mr. Ori Tadmor, President of KLA Israel & Vice President of Global Operations at KLA, for a fascinating talk on the co-evolution of AI and semiconductors. Stay tuned.

Yissum.
Your Innovation. Our Journey. Shared Impact.

Aya Soffer IBM KLA Corporation ELSC Vicky Palatnik The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

30/04/2026

🚨 We’re scaling AI faster than we’re making it work together.

That’s the problem BAND is betting on.

Most companies today are deploying AI agents across every function imaginable - engineering, security, operations, and beyond.

But underneath the surface, something breaks immediately:
They don’t coordinate.

You don’t get one intelligent system.

You get hundreds of disconnected agents - each smart, each useful, but unaware of each other.

This is where AI quietly stops being “intelligent” at the system level.

👉 BAND is building the missing layer.

BAND is creating the infrastructure for what it calls the “agent economy” - a world where autonomous AI agents don’t just execute tasks, but collaborate as a unified network.

Founded by Hebrew University alumni Arick Goomanovsky (CEO) and Vlad Luzin (CTO), BAND is solving a foundational problem in modern AI infrastructure: making agents interoperable in real time.

Instead of isolated automation, their platform enables:
👉 Agents discovering each other dynamically
👉 Sharing context across systems instantly
👉 Delegating tasks between agents autonomously
👉 Operating as a continuous collaborative layer

This is the shift from:
tools → systems
automation → orchestration
individual intelligence → collective intelligence

And the stakes are rising fast.

Because as AI adoption accelerates, the bottleneck is no longer capability.

It’s coordination at scale.

Without it, even the most advanced agents remain fragmented.

That’s why BAND’s $17M seed round 🚀 matters - it signals the emergence of a new foundational layer in the AI stack.

✨ Huge congratulations to Arick, Vlad, and the entire BAND team.

The next phase of AI won’t be defined by smarter agents.
But by systems that actually work together.

Read more in ynetnews article: https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/hkkpu5utbe

Computer Science and Engineering School

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Arick Leonid Goomanovsky
Vlad Luzin
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

28/04/2026

🎉 One of the world’s most competitive research grants in fundamental science has been awarded to Prof. Orna Amster-Choder.

👏 Congratulations to Prof. Orna Amster-Choder on this outstanding achievement.

Prof. Amster-Choder, from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, has received a highly competitive and prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) international research grant, awarded to a select group of leading researchers worldwide.

She will lead this project in collaboration with Prof. Casey Huang (Stanford University) and Prof. Sivaramesh Wigneshweraraj (Imperial College London).

Prof. Amster-Choder is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on cellular organization in bacteria, combining molecular biology, advanced imaging, and computational approaches to uncover fundamental biological principles.

The research challenges long-standing assumptions about how bacteria respond to stress. While conventional thinking focuses on gene regulation as the primary response, this project explores a faster, more immediate mechanism, namely rapid physical and chemical changes within the cell.

The team will investigate how these rapid responses are organized within bacterial cells, including the role of dynamic structures known as condensates, which may enable cells to adapt quickly to sudden environmental changes.

By combining microbiology, cell biology, and systems biology, the collaboration aims to uncover fundamental principles of cellular adaptation. These insights could extend beyond bacteria to more complex systems, including human cells.

HFSP is known for supporting high-risk, high-reward research that challenges existing scientific paradigms, further underscoring the significance of this award.

👏 Join us in congratulating Prof. Amster-Choder!

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

26/04/2026

Cooling the planet through agriculture sounds almost unrealistic. Until you see it starting to take shape. 🌍🌱

Cooling Crops, a Hebrew University spinout, is developing a spray that can reduce plant temperature by up to 6°C under extreme heat, helping crops survive increasingly frequent heatwaves and improving yields. ☀️🌾

But the bigger idea is what really stands out.

By enabling plants to release heat more efficiently through existing spectral “windows” in the atmosphere, this approach could go beyond protecting crops and potentially contribute to cooling the planet itself. 🌍❄️

At the same time, the technology restores degraded soils, improves water retention, and supports stronger germination, addressing several of agriculture’s toughest challenges in one solution. 💧🌿

What makes this especially compelling is the alignment of incentives: farmers adopt it to improve yields, and the climate benefit comes along for the ride.

This is our third post on Cooling Crops since November, and it’s exciting to see the continued progress and growing momentum. 🚀

Congratulations to Prof. Oded Shoseyov (The Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture), Prof. Keren (The Institute of Life Sciences), Prof. Yossi Paltiel (Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science), the multidisciplinary scientific team behind this category-defining technology, Sagi Sheinkman (CEO), Eyal Bagon (CTO), and the entire Cooling Crops team, on their CTech by Calcalist feature. 👏

Proud to support the team and to witness this journey up close. 🤝

Read more in the CTech by Calcalist article: https://tinyurl.com/2jsu438v

From left to right: Eyal Bagon (CTO) and Sagi Sheinkman (CEO) in Melbourne, following their win at the Farmers2Founders International Agrifood-Tech Pitch Challenge during AgriFutures evokeAG week.

Oded Shoseyov
CTech
Farmers2Founders
evokeAG
Dov Reichman
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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