Prof. Rani Elkon

Ran Elkon is an Associate Professor at the Gray School of Medical Sciences, Tel Aviv University. He received his BSc in Physics, and his MSc and PhD in Bioinformatics, from Tel Aviv University.

Following postdoctoral training at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam, he returned to Tel Aviv University, where he now heads a bioinformatics research group. 

Prof. Elkon has authored 95 peer-reviewed publications. His research aims to advance the implementation of personalized medicine in clinical settings and focuses on understanding how genetic variation influences disease risk, with particular emphasis on the non-coding genome - that is, genetic variants located in regions of the human genome that do not encode proteins but instead regulate gene expression. 

Using AI and machine learning techniques, his lab develops novel bioinformatics methods to investigate diverse modes of gene regulation and to construct cutting-edge genetic risk models for identifying individuals with increased susceptibility to common diseases such as breast cancer, mental disorders, and autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases.