Leadership

Prof. Shai Shen-Orr is a computational biologist who specializes in applying computer science and information technology to biology and medicine, particularly immunology. Since 2012, he has headed the multidisciplinary Systems Immunology & Precision Medicine Laboratory at the Technion’s Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and is the co-director of Tech.AI, the Technion’s Artificial Intelligence umbrella organization, where he oversees AI efforts across the Technion in biomedicine. Prof. Shen-Orr has been a member of and led multiple international consortia and collaborations. Prof. Shen-Orr is also the co-founder and chief scientist of CytoReason, a company aimed at making medicine predictable using molecular-level computational models of disease to improve the probability of success in drug development. Prof. Shen-Orr is developing analytical methodologies for unraveling the complexities of the immune system, which he has applied to understanding the workings of the immune system in disease and aging. He is also identifying diagnostic biomarkers that evaluate immune health, and, in particular, a metric that gauges one’s “immune age,” a more accurate measure of health than chronological age. His work could advance the diagnosis and treatment of immune-related diseases.