Aviv Regev (born 11 July 1971)[3] 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.

Aviv Regev
Regev at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in 2017
Born (1971-07-11) July 11, 1971 (age 53)[3]
Alma materTel Aviv University (M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBioinformatics
Computational Biology
Institutions
Doctoral advisorEva Jablonka
Ehud Shapiro
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Education

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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

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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

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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

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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]

References

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  6. ^ Nowogrodzki, Anna (5 July 2017). "How to build a human cell atlas". Nature. 547 (7661): 24–26. Bibcode:2017Natur.547...24N. doi:10.1038/547024a. PMID 28682347. S2CID 211067156.
  7. ^ Regev, A.; Lamb, M. J.; Jablonka, E. (1998). "The Role of DNA Methylation in Invertebrates: Developmental Regulation or Genome Defense?". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15 (7): 880. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025992. ISSN 0737-4038.
  8. ^ Regev, A.; Shapiro, E. (2002). "Cellular abstractions: Cells as computation". Nature. 419 (6905): 343. Bibcode:2002Natur.419..343R. doi:10.1038/419343a. PMC 3842595. PMID 12353013.  
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  12. ^ Segal, E.; Shapira, M.; Regev, A.; Pe'er, D.; Botstein, D.; Koller, D.; Friedman, N. (2003). "Module networks: Identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data". Nature Genetics. 34 (2): 166–176. doi:10.1038/ng1165. PMID 12740579. S2CID 6146032.
  13. ^ Segal, E.; Friedman, N.; Koller, D.; Regev, A. (2004). "A module map showing conditional activity of expression modules in cancer". Nature Genetics. 36 (10): 1090–1098. doi:10.1038/ng1434. PMC 2271138. PMID 15448693.  
  14. ^ Regev, A.; Silverman, W.; Shapiro, E. (2001). "Representation and simulation of biochemical processes using the pi-calculus process algebra". Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing: 459–470. doi:10.1142/9789814447362_0045. ISBN 978-981-02-4515-3. PMID 11262964.
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