Dr. Gur Yaari

Biography

Gur Yaari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine. He received his B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, M.Sc. in High Energy Physics, and Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Physics from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has served as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and held positions as assistant, associate, and full professor at Bar Ilan University from 2013 to 2025. His current research focuses on the development of computational statistical tools for the analysis of high-throughput biological data, with a special emphasis on the adaptive immune system. Yaari’s work is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, biology, and medicine. He investigates the dynamics of lymphocyte (T and B cells) repertoire in healthy individuals and various disease states, including infections, autoimmune diseases, aging, and cancer. His lab employs advanced molecular biology methods to produce large sequencing datasets of human lymphocyte receptors, which are analyzed using dedicated computational pipelines to derive meaningful biological insights into the adaptive immune system.

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