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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2020 - Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2020 - Excellence in Science Award, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2017 - Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • 2016 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2008 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Overview

Aviv Regev is affiliated with Genentech in the United States and has a significant body of research contributions primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Oncology, Cancer Research, and Biophysics. The scientist's research focuses on topics such as Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, and RNA Research and Splicing.

Regev has published extensively in several scientific venues with a notable presence in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 93 publications, Nature Biotechnology (31), Nature (27), Cell (17), and Nature Communications (15).

Selected recent papers highlight the scope of Regev's research interests:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues," 2020, Cell
  • "Chromatin Potential Identified by Shared Single-Cell Profiling of RNA and Chromatin," 2020, Cell
  • "Disease-associated astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease and aging," 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Systematic comparison of single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-sequencing methods," 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Deep learning and alignment of spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomes with Tangram," 2021, Nature Methods

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Danielle Dionne, Orr Ashenberg, Michal Slyper, and Lan Nguyễn, with notable co-author counts indicating repeated collaboration.

Aviv Regev has received several awards recognizing contributions to biomedical sciences and computational biology, including the Keio Medical Science Prize (2020), Excellence in Science Award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) (2020), Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2020), membership in the National Academy of Medicine (2020) and the National Academy of Sciences (2019), the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research (2017), Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (2016), the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award (2008), and Fellowship of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2008).

Best Publications

  • Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome.

    Manfred G Grabherr;Brian J Haas;Moran Yassour;Moran Yassour;Joshua Z Levin

  • De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

    Brian J Haas;Alexie Papanicolaou;Moran Yassour;Moran Yassour;Manfred Grabherr

  • Highly Parallel Genome-wide Expression Profiling of Individual Cells Using Nanoliter Droplets

    Evan Z. Macosko;Evan Z. Macosko;Anindita Basu;Anindita Basu;Rahul Satija;Rahul Satija;James Nemesh;James Nemesh

  • Spatial reconstruction of single-cell gene expression data

    Rahul Satija;Jeffrey A Farrell;David Gennert;Alexander F Schier

  • Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq

    Itay Tirosh;Benjamin Izar;Benjamin Izar;Sanjay M. Prakadan;Marc H. Wadsworth

  • Chromatin signature reveals over a thousand highly conserved large non-coding RNAs in mammals

    Mitchell Guttman;Ido Amit;Manuel Garber;Courtney French

  • Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system.

    Bernd Zetsche;Jonathan S. Gootenberg;Omar O. Abudayyeh;Ian M. Slaymaker

  • Single-cell RNA-seq highlights intratumoral heterogeneity in primary glioblastoma

    Anoop Premswaroop Patel;I. Tirosh;J. J. Trombetta;Alexander Kann Shalek

  • Integrative annotation of human large intergenic noncoding RNAs reveals global properties and specific subclasses

    Moran N. Cabili;Cole Trapnell;Cole Trapnell;Loyal Goff;Magdalena J. Koziol;Magdalena J. Koziol

  • Many human large intergenic noncoding RNAs associate with chromatin-modifying complexes and affect gene expression

    Ahmad M. Khalil;Mitchell Guttman;Maite Huarte;Manuel Garber

  • Nucleic acid detection with CRISPR-Cas13a/C2c2

    Jonathan S. Gootenberg;Omar O. Abudayyeh;Jeong Wook Lee;Patrick Essletzbichler

  • An embryonic stem cell–like gene expression signature in poorly differentiated aggressive human tumors

    Ittai Ben-Porath;Matthew W Thomson;Vincent J Carey;Ruping Ge

  • Single-cell RNA-seq reveals new types of human blood dendritic cells, monocytes, and progenitors.

    Alexandra Chloé Villani;Alexandra Chloé Villani;Rahul Satija;Rahul Satija;Gary Reynolds;Siranush Sarkizova

  • SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues.

    Carly G.K. Ziegler;Samuel J. Allon;Sarah K. Nyquist;Ian M. Mbano

  • A Large Intergenic Noncoding RNA Induced by p53 Mediates Global Gene Repression in the p53 Response

    Maite Huarte;Mitchell Guttman;Mitchell Guttman;David Feldser;Manuel Garber

  • Module networks: identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data

    Eran Segal;Michael Shapira;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Dana Pe'er

  • lincRNAs act in the circuitry controlling pluripotency and differentiation

    Mitchell Guttman;Julie Donaghey;Bryce W. Carey;Manuel Garber

  • C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector

    Omar O. Abudayyeh;Jonathan S. Gootenberg;Silvana Konermann;Silvana Konermann;Silvana Konermann;Julia Joung;Julia Joung;Julia Joung

  • Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Primary and Metastatic Tumor Ecosystems in Head and Neck Cancer

    Sidharth V. Puram;Itay Tirosh;Itay Tirosh;Anuraag S. Parikh;Anoop P. Patel

  • Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq

    I. Tirosh;B. Izar;D. Treacy;J. J. Trombetta

Frequent Co-Authors

Nir Hacohen
Nir Hacohen Harvard University
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
Nir Yosef
Nir Yosef University of California, Berkeley
Itay Tirosh
Itay Tirosh Weizmann Institute of Science
Rahul Satija
Rahul Satija New York University
Vijay K. Kuchroo
Vijay K. Kuchroo Harvard University
Nir Friedman
Nir Friedman Weizmann Institute of Science
Bradley E. Bernstein
Bradley E. Bernstein Broad Institute

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