June 2025
Our recent Science paper on pan viral ORFs discovery was covered by Carl Zimmer for The New York Times
June 2025
Read about our lab work on the viral dark proteome in Harvard Medical School News & Research
September 2024
Virologist, Dr. Shira Weingarten-Gabbay has uncovered thousands of novel microproteins encoded in the “dark matter” of viral genomes
September 2024
Shira was named the 2024 Blavatnik Regional Award Laureate in Life Sciences
March 2023
Shira was awarded the 2023 Eclipse Award for Innovation in High Throughput Biology from the RNA Society
November 2021
The Human Frontier Science Program highlighted the discovery of T cell epitopes from non-canonical ORFs published in Cell
June 2021
The Broad Institute News cover the discovery of new immune trargets in SARS-CoV-2 non-canonical ORFs published in Cell
June 2016
Weizmann Institute News highlight of the discovery of thousand of Internal Ribosome Entry Sites (IRESs) in human and viruses publishes in Science