Biography

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern has completed her Ph. D at the age of 32 years from Weizmann Institute of Science and postdoctoral studies from Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). She has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member of repute. She is a founder of the Art in Science competition at the ISMB conference since 2008; a chair of the ISCB affiliated Israeli Bioinformatics group, and a head of the Cancer Genomics and BioComputing group in the Azrieli faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University. 
Research Interest:
Her Research Interest includes the development of a Liquid Biopsy platform for brain cancers using unique biomarkers, particularly, fusion proteins. We expect to provide a proof-of-concept stage of our research for 50 patients in glioblastoma, and the validation stage for 1000 patients in gliomas.