The Koret - UC Berkeley - Tel Aviv University (KBT) initiative is aimed to advance breakthroughs in biomedical and information technologies by fostering and leveraging academic ties between experts from the most innovative technology-driven ecosystems in the world. UCB and TAU scientists will jointly develop computational tools that integrate patient genetic, genomic and other data for advancing basic biology as well as precision medicine.

The KBT initiative will be run jointly by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics at TAU and the Center of Computational Biology at UC Berkeley, and is made possible by a generous gift from the Koret Foundation.