Systems Biologist Shai Shen-Orr is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion—where he directs the laboratory of Systems Immunology and Precision Medicine. Shai develops novel analytics for studying the immune system—tools which he applies to study the drivers of immune variation, particularly in the context of aging and evolution and to further Precision Medicine.
Shai is the Director of the Zimin Institute for AI Solutions in Healthcare and the co-director of Tech.AI, Technion’s AI umbrella organization. Most recently he is the founding director of the Technion Institute for Healthy Aging and is co-CSO of the global non-profit, the Human Immunome Project.
Based on his academic research Shai’s co-founded CytoReason, a PharmaAI global leader in computational disease modeling for drug development, where he serves as Chief Scientist.