Nir Ben-Tal
{{Short description|Biography of Prof Nir Ben-Tal}}
{{Orphan|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Nir Ben-Tal
| native_name = ניר בן-טל
| native_name_lang = he
| image = Nir-Square-2118.jpg
| birth_date =
| nationality = Israeli
| fields = Computational structural biology
| alma_mater = The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
| known_for = ConSurf software and web-site (https://consurf.tau.ac.il/)
| awards = Alon Foundation Excellence Fellowship, The Wolf Foundation Award of Excellence, The TEVA
Foundation Award of Excellence
| website = https://www.bentalab.com
| workplaces = Tel Aviv University
}}
Nir Ben-Tal (Hebrew: ניר בן-טל) 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.{{Cite web|url=https://safrabio.cs.tau.ac.il/safrabio/nir_ben_tal_chair_award|title=August 2018: Ben-Tal awarded the Kazan Chair|website=|access-date=2023-01-04|archive-date=2023-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104012528/https://safrabio.cs.tau.ac.il/safrabio/nir_ben_tal_chair_award|url-status=bot: unknown}} He received his undergraduate degree in Biology, Chemistry and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1988 and his DSc in Chemistry at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1993.{{cite web|url=https://en-lifesci.tau.ac.il/profile/bental|title=Nir Ben-Tal Faculty website|access-date=2023-01-04|archive-date=2023-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104012515/https://en-lifesci.tau.ac.il/profile/bental|url-status=bot: unknown}}
Career
His research group at Tel Aviv University developed Conservation Surface Mapping (ConSurf) in response to certain algorithmic limitations.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s0SxfCuJfOsC&dq=Nir+Ben-Tal&pg=PA327 |page=327 |title= Bioinformatics for Systems Biology |author=Stephen Krawetz |year=2009 |publisher=Humana Press|isbn=9781597454407 }} 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”.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_163390.htm|title=NATO Science Partnership Prize awarded to three outstanding projects|website=NATO}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/opinions/090822/book-from-molecules-to-life|title='How life began merits a preceding discussion of what life actually is'|website=www.asbmb.org}} Over his career he has published articles in scientific journals as well as scientific textbooks such as Introduction to Proteins: Structure, Function and Motion.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uCa-DwAAQBAJ&dq=Nir+Ben-Tal&pg=PA11 |title=Biophysical Characterization of Proteins in Developing Biopharmaceuticals |year=2019 |author=Damian J. Houde and Steven A. Berkowitz |publisher=Elsevier|isbn=9780444641748 }}
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