2026 Early-Career Research Grants: Congratulations to the Recipients

08 October 2026

The Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2026 Early-Career Research Grants.

These grants support faculty members at the beginning of their academic careers, encourage innovative research, and provide a foundation for developing new research directions across medicine and the health sciences.

The funded projects cover a broad range of fields, including clinical medicine, genetics, neuroscience, medical technology, and public health, reflecting the diversity of research conducted across the Faculty.

We congratulate all 15 grant recipients and wish them continued success in their research.

2026 Grant Recipients

Margot Stolz Research Fund

Principal Investigator	Research Project
Dr. Alon Zahavi	The Role of Semaglutide in Choroidal Neovascularization
Dr. Ameen Biadsee	Serum α1-Antitrypsin as a Prognostic Biomarker for Recurrence in Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyposis: A Prospective Cohort Study
Dr. Eshcar Meisel Mor	Genetic Variation to Kidney Disease Susceptibility and Progression Among Individuals with Hypertension and/or Type 2 Diabetes
Dr. Daniel Trotzky	Evaluating the Clinical Suitability of International Triage Models in Israeli Emergency Departments: A National Mixed-Methods Study
Dr. Miri Danan-Gotthold	Cell-Type-Resolved Splicing Dysregulation in Fragile X Syndrome: A New Path to Severity Biomarkers
Dr. Anat Shmueli	Sonographic Evaluation of Fetal Head Molding During Labor and Its Association with Perinatal Outcomes
Dr. Shiri Weinstein	Development of a Standardized Skin Testing Extract for the Little Fire Ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) – A New Scourge in Israel

W. Schreiber Fund

Principal Investigator	Research Project
Dr. Edward Itelman	Video-Native Deep Learning for Personalized Prediction of Aortic Stenosis Progression: Development and External Validation
Dr. Ohad Houri	Maternal Cardiovascular Phenotypes in Twin Pregnancies Complicated by Pre-eclampsia: The Impact of Chorionicity and Gestational Timing
Dr. Gal Cohen	Optimization of Prenatal Diagnosis: Evaluating Direct Versus Cultured Chorionic Villus Preparation for Chromosomal Microarray Analysis
Dr. David Amar	Robust Signatures of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Home-Cage Behavioral Machine Learning and Brain-Transcriptome Meta-Analysis
Dr. Tony Gutentag	Person-Environment Fit in Medicine: The Right Physician in the Right Specialty Feels Better and Performs Better
Dr. Yonatan Moshkovits	Comparison of the Effect of Novel GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and Dual GLP-1/GIP Agonists on Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Platelets Activation in Patients with Obesity
Dr. Oded Icht	Phase II Controlled Clinical Trial to Test Efficacy and Observe Longitudinal Effects of Tamoxifen for Testosterone Recovery in Medically Castrated Prostate Cancer Patients
Dr. Tomer Meirson	Toxin-Based Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapy (ToxiCAR)