Nir Ben-Tal

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Nir Ben-Tal
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
Known forConSurf software and web-site (https://consurf.tau.ac.il/)
AwardsAlon Foundation Excellence Fellowship, The Wolf Foundation Award of Excellence, The TEVA Foundation Award of Excellence
Scientific career
FieldsComputational structural biology
InstitutionsTel Aviv University
Websitehttps://www.bentalab.com

Nir Ben-Tal is the Abraham E. Kazan Chair of Structural Biology at Tel Aviv University. 

Early life

Nir Ben-Tal is a professor at Tel Aviv University, where he has held the Abraham E. Kazan Chair of Structural Biology since 2018 as a member of the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry & Biophysics.

Israel Institute of Technology, in 1993.[2]
 

Career

His research group at Tel Aviv University developed Conservation Surface Mapping (ConSurf) in response to certain algorithmic limitations.[3] He received a 2018 NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme Prize in radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defence for his project “The Anthrax MntABC Transporter: Structure, Functional Dynamics and Drug Discovery”.[4]   In 2022 he co-authored the book From Molecules to Cells: The Origin of Life on Earth, which hypothesizes on the beginning of life on Earth.[5] Over his career he has published articles in scientific journals as well as scientific textbooks such as Introduction to Proteins: Structure, Function and Motion.[6]  

References

  1. ^ "August 2018: Ben-Tal awarded the Kazan Chair". Archived from the original on 2023-01-04. Retrieved 2023-01-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "Nir Ben-Tal Faculty website". Archived from the original on 2023-01-04. Retrieved 2023-01-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ISBN 9781597454407
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  4. ^ "NATO Science Partnership Prize awarded to three outstanding projects". NATO.
  5. ^ "'How life began merits a preceding discussion of what life actually is'". www.asbmb.org.
  6. ISBN 9780444641748
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