Aviv Regev

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Aviv Regev
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Regev at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in 2017
Born (1971-07-11) July 11, 1971 (age 52) [1]
Alma mater Tel Aviv University (M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Institutions
Doctoral advisor Eva Jablonka
Ehud Shapiro
Website www.broadinstitute.org/bios/aviv-regev OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Aviv Regev (born 11 July 1971) [1] is a computational biologist and systems biologist and Executive Vice President and Head of Genentech Research and Early Development in Genentech/Roche. [4] She is a core member (on leave) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and professor (on leave) at the Department of Biology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [5] Regev is a pioneer of single cell genomics and of computational and systems biology of gene regulatory circuits. She founded and leads the Human Cell Atlas project, [6] together with Sarah Teichmann.

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Education

Regev studied at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University, where she completed her PhD under the supervision of Eva Jablonka, [7] and Ehud Shapiro. [8]

Career and research

In 2020, Regev became the Head and Executive Vice President of Genentech Research and Early Development, based in South San Francisco, and a member of the extended Corporate Executive Committee of Roche. [9] [10] Previously, she was a Core Institute Member (now on leave), Chair of the Faculty, Founding Director of the Klarman Cell Observatory and co-Director Cell Circuits Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She was also a professor in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (now on leave), as well as an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Regev's research [11] includes work on gene expression [12] [13] (with Eran Segal and David Botstein), and the use of π-calculus to represent biochemical processes. [14] [15] [16] Regev's team has been a leading pioneer of single-cell genomics experimental and computational methods. [17] In 2014, she pitched the idea of the creation of Human Cell Atlas, [18] a project to describe all cell types in the human body. Regev founded the Human Cell Atlas together with Sarah Teichmann along with collaborators all over the world.[ citation needed ]

Single Cell Genomics

Regev's lab pioneered the development and application of many of the key experimental and computational advances for single cell and spatial genomics, especially single cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-seq).

Awards and honors

Regev is a fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) (2017), [19] a Helmholtz Fellow (2020), [20] and a fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (2021). [21] She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS, elected 2019) [22] and of the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM, elected 2020). [23]

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