Scientific Committee

Ruti Alon, Founder & CEO, Medstrada, Biomed 2025 Committee Chair 

Ora Dar, PhD, Senior Expert, Medical Sciences & Health Innovation, Biomed 2025 Committee Chair

Dr. Nissim Darvish, MD, PhD, Managing General Partner, Eliraz Ventures, Biomed 2025 Committee Chair

Dr. Barak Azmon, MD, Director, Pres-By

Dr. Pablo Cabral, MD, Executive Director, External Innovation, Eli Lilly

Prof. Itay Chowers, Professor of Ophthalmology, and Chairman at the Division of Ophthalmology of the Hadassah – Hebrew University Medical Center

Moshik Cohen-Kutner, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO, Omnix Medical

Yaron Daniely, PhD, General Partner, aMoon Fund

Dr. Assaf Dekel, MD, Chairman & CEO, OTS Medical

Christian Dombrowski, PhD, Senior Vice President, Averna Therapeutics

Prof. Itzhak Fried, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery, Head of the Applied Brain Research Center, UCLA, Reichman University

Mati Gill, CEO, AION Labs

Gilad Glick, VP JJDC MedTech, Johnson & Johnson Innovation Fund

Barry Greene, CEO, Sage Therapeutics

Iris Grossman, PhD, Chief Therapeutics Officer, Eleven Therapeutics

Yael Gruenbaum – Cohen, DMD, PhD, 
General Partner, Entree Bioventure

Avner Halperin, CEO, Sheba Medical Center

Prof. Dror Harats, MD, CEO & Director, VBL Therapeutics, Biomed 2024 Steering Committee

Ittai Harel, Managing Partner, Pitango Venture Capital

Dr. Boaz Hirshberg, MD, Senior Vice President, Clinical Sciences General Medicine, Regeneron

Sharon Kaplinsky, Founder & CEO, Star Tree Ventures

Eyal Lifschitz, Managing Partner, Peregrine Ventures

Prof. Chaim Lotan, MD, Director, Chief Innovation Officer, Heart Institute, Hadassah Hebrew University 

Prof. Anat Loewenstein, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Dean, Tel Aviv University

Tammy Meiron, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, FreshStart FoodTech Incubator

Shai Melcer, PhD, Head of the National Bio-convergence Program, Israel Innovation Authority

Dr. Karin Noy, PhD, External Science Lead AI Discovery & Early Development, Pfizer 

Prof. Varda Shalev, MD, MPA, Managing Partner, Team8 Health 

Dror Shalitin, PhD, Founder and CEO, PlantArcBio

Dr. Ofer Sharon, MD, CEO, OncoHost

Dr. Jonathan Weyne, MD, Vice President, Ophthalmology Therapeutic Area Lead, Regeneron

Dr. Irit Yaniv, MD, Founding Partner and CEO, Almeda Ventures