Aviv Regev

Aviv Regev (born 11 July 1971)[3] is a computational

biologist and systems biologist and Executive Vice Aviv Regev
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.
Regev at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular
Biology conference in 2017
Education Born July 11, 1971[3]
Alma mater Tel Aviv University ([Link]., Ph.D.)
Regev studied at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary
Program for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv Awards Overton Prize (2008)[1]
University, where she completed her PhD under the ISCB Innovator Award (2017)[2]
supervision of Eva Jablonka,[7] and Ehud Shapiro.[8] Paul Marks Prize for Cancer
Research (2017)
Member of the National
Career and research Academy of Sciences (2019)
Keio Medical Science Prize
In 2020, Regev became the Head and Executive Vice
(2020)
President of Genentech Research and Early
Development, based in South San Francisco, and a Scientific career
member of the extended Corporate Executive Fields Bioinformatics
Committee of Roche.[9][10] Previously, she was a Core Computational Biology
Institute Member (now on leave), Chair of the Faculty, Institutions Massachusetts Institute of
Founding Director of the Klarman Cell Observatory
Technology
and co-Director Cell Circuits Program at the Broad
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute of MIT and Harvard. She was also a professor
Institute
in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (now on leave), as well as an Broad Institute
Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Genentech
Regev's research[11] includes work on gene Doctoral Eva Jablonka
expression[12][13] (with Eran Segal and David advisor Ehud Shapiro
Botstein), and the use of π-calculus to represent
Website [Link]/scientists/our-
biochemical processes.[14][15][16] Regev's team has scientists/aviv-regev ([Link]
been a leading pioneer of single-cell genomics
experimental and computational methods.[17] In 2014, [Link]/scientists/our-scienti
she pitched the idea of the creation of Human Cell sts/aviv-regev)
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.

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] She was elected as a foreign member of the Royal
Society [24] and as an associate member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2024.[25]

TED AI 2023 Talk: Can AI Help Develop New Medicines[26]

25th L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards (Laureate for North America),
2023[27]
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2022[28]
Anderson Lecture, University of Virginia, 2022[29]
Nakasone Award from the Human Frontiers Science Program (2022)[30]
Honorary doctorate, ETH Zurich (2021)[31]
Ernst Schering Prize (2021)[32]
James Prize in Science and Technology Integration, National Academy of Sciences
(2021)[33]
Vanderbilt Prize (2021)[34]
She was awarded the 25th Keio Medical Science Prize in 2020.[35][36]
AACR-Irving Weinstein Foundation Distinguished Lecture (2021)[37]
Lurie Prize from the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) (2020)[38]
Mendel Lecture, European Society of Human Genetics (2020)[39]
Jonathan Kraft Prize from Massachusetts General Hospital (2020)[40]
FASEB Excellence in Science Mid-Career Investigator Award (2019)[41]
She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2019.[42]
She also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2018.
Weatherall Lecture, University Oxford, UK (2018)[43]
Harvey Lecture, Harvey Society, New York (2018)[44]
McCormick Lecture, Stanford University (2018)[45]
Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research (2017).[46]
ISCB Innovator Award in 2017.[2][47]
 Earl and Thressa Stadtman Scholar Award from the American Society of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology (ASBMB) (2014)[48]
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award.[49]
In 2008, she was also awarded the NIH Director's Pioneer Award.[50][51]
Regev was awarded the Overton Prize in 2008 for "outstanding accomplishment to a
scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career".[1]

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