# Tel Aviv University

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## TL;DR

Israel's largest university and the academic parent of the Sheba, Sourasky and Rabin hospitals, so most Israeli oncology papers carry its name; its physics department is where the alpha-emitter radiotherapy behind Alpha Tau began.

## Summary

Tel Aviv University's Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences (formerly Sackler) is the academic affiliation of Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky (Ichilov) and Rabin Medical Center, which is why a large share of Israeli clinical oncology publications carry a Tel Aviv University address alongside a hospital one. Its distinctive contribution of its own is Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy: Itzhak Kelson in physics and Yona Keisari in immunology devised seeds that release short-lived alpha-emitting daughter atoms which diffuse a few millimetres through a tumour, a route to alpha radiation that does not require a targeting molecule, and the work was licensed through the university's technology transfer company Ramot to Alpha Tau Medical. Zelig Eshhar, whose 1989 chimeric receptor is the ancestor of every CAR-T product, ran his later laboratory at Tel Aviv Sourasky within the same faculty.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-25
- Also known as: TAU; Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; Sackler Faculty of Medicine; Ramot
- City: Tel Aviv, IL
- Type: university
- Website: https://english.tau.ac.il

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv_University
- Tel Aviv University: https://english.tau.ac.il
- Ramot at Tel Aviv University: https://ramot.org
- Alpha Tau Medical: https://alphatau.com/

## Connected records

- fronts: [Cell Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/cell-therapy/), [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- technologies: [CAR-T cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/car-t/), [Targeted alpha therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/targeted-alpha-therapy/)
- companies: [Alpha Tau Medical](https://onco.cc/companies/alpha-tau-medical/)
- institutions: [Davidoff Cancer Center, Rabin Medical Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/rabin-davidoff-center/), [Sheba Medical Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/sheba/), [Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/tel-aviv-sourasky/)
- people: [Eitan Friedman](https://onco.cc/people/eitan-friedman/), [Gal Markel](https://onco.cc/people/gal-markel/), [Jacob Schachter](https://onco.cc/people/jacob-schachter/), [Michal Besser](https://onco.cc/people/michal-besser/), [Zelig Eshhar](https://onco.cc/people/zelig-eshhar/)

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