🧬What happens when a life-changing diagnosis becomes a mission to change the future of drug discovery?
💡As part of BGN’s Bio-Innovation Unit activity, Dr.
@Anat_Shperberg and Dr. Maya Shemesh lead the Lunch & Learn lecture series, bringing researchers, entrepreneurs, and industry voices together around the challenges and opportunities of translating science into real-world impact.
⚕️In a recent session,
@SagiGidali shared the deeply personal story behind his shift from building and exiting cybersecurity companies to tackling one of the hardest challenges in medicine: accelerating the discovery of treatments for rare genetic diseases.
👶After his son Rafa was diagnosed with STXBP1, Sagi began looking for answers, including research that started at
@bengurionu in the lab of Prof.
@GVatine. When he was told there was no cure and nothing to be done, his response was to act.
🚀From founding Rafa's Moonshot to building new AI-driven approaches for drug discovery, Sagi’s story highlights what can happen when entrepreneurship, science, urgency, and personal purpose come together.
📼The full lecture recording is available in the first comment.
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