Type Public Chairperson Haya Loberboum-Galski Campus Urban Number of students 3,400 Undergraduates 2,800 | Established 2008 Location Jerusalem, Israel Nickname IMRIC Founded 2008 Postgraduates 600 | |
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The Institute for Medical Research, Israel-Canada (IMRIC) is a research institute that is part of the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is synonymous with its Medical School. It was founded in 2008, and conducts fundamental and applied research in the field of biomedicine. The Institute has five departments: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Developmental Biology and Cancer Research; Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research; Medical Neurobiology; and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics.
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In addition to its research, IMRIC provides a bachelor's degree course in Biomedical Sciences (B.Sc.Med), teaches the basic sciences for the undergraduate, pre-clinical programs of the Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine and is the largest educational institute in Israel for graduate studies in Biomedical Sciences having about 600 master and doctoral students. The doctoral programs offer a wide range of multidisciplinary research areas in basic medical science and related fields and collaborative programs with clinicians from the Hadassah Medical Center.
Since 2012, the chair of the institute has been Professor Haya Loberboum-Galski who took over from Professor David Lichtstein, the chair from 2008-2012.
IMRIC is supported in part by the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University (CFHU) through the establishment of scholarships and research funding. In addition, the CFHU aids in creating key collaborative medical research partnerships between Canada and Israel, such as the Alex U. Soyka Pancreatic Cancer Research Project, the Grafstein Network for Cancer Research the Canada-Israel International Fetal Alcohol Consortium and the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Cancer Genomic and Immunotherapy Program.
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Teaching Divisions
The Institute provides a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences. In addition its faculty teaches the basic sciences for the undergraduate, pre-clinical programs of the Faculty of Medicine. These include programs for Medicine, Military Medicine, Dentistry, Biomedical Sciences, and Nursing. In 2016, more than 2800 students were enrolled in these programs.
IMRIC is also the largest education institute in Israel for graduate studies in Medical Sciences having about 600 master (MSc) and doctorate (PhD) students.
Research Hubs and Centers
Research Hubs gather together scientists and clinicians focusing on a specific subject or disease, integrating various scientific and medical disciplines. Each hub consists of researchers from IMRIC, Hadassah Medical Center, The School of Pharmacy, The School of Public Health, Shaare Zedek Medical Center and more. The following research hubs are currently active:
- Epigenetics and Common Human Diseases
- The Tumor and its Microenvironment
- Mitochondria
- Developmental Processes, Malformations and Diseases
- Cardiovascular Research
- The Herbert and Dorothy Nadolny Cardio-Metabolic Diseases Research Hub
- Microbe Brain Storming - MIBS
- Muscle Degeneration Diseases
- Virus-host Interactions and Viral Pathogenesis.
There are six research centers affiliated with IMRIC: The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology; The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases; The Brain Disease Research Center - BDRC; The Autism Center; The Hubert H. Humphrey Center for Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research; and The Rogoff Center for Research in Physiology.