ד"ר רון פירן

1. Piran, R. , Lee, S.H., Kuss, P., Hao, E., Newlin, R, Millán J.L. and Levine, F. “PAR2 regulates regeneration, transdifferentiation and death” Cell Death and Disease 2016; 7, e2452.
2. Piran, R. , Lee, S.H., Li, C.R., Charbono, A., Bradley, L, and Levine, F. “Pharmacological Induction of Pancreatic Islet Cell Transdifferentiation: Relevance to Type I Diabetes” Cell Death and Disease 2014; 5, e1357
3. Lee, S.H. *, Piran, R. *, Keinan, E., Pinkerton, A., and Levine, F. “Induction of b-Cell Replication by a Synthetic HNF4a Antagonist” Stem Cells 2013; 31(11): 2396–2407. * EQUALLY CONTRIBUTED
4. Lee, S. H., Athavankar, S., Cohen, T., Piran, R., Kiselyuk, A., and Levine, F. “Identification of Alverine and Benfluorex as HNF4α Activators” ACS Chemical Biology 2013; 8 (8): 1730–1736
5. Ratner, T., Piran, R., Jonoska, N., and Keinan, E. “Biologically Relevant Molecular Transducer with Increased Computing Power and Iterative Abilities”. Chemistry and Biology 2013; 20 (5): 726-733.
6. Shoshani, S., Piran, R., Arava, Y., and Keinan E. “A Molecular Cryptosystem for Images by DNA Computing”. Angewandte Chemie Intl. ed. 2012; 5: 2883-2887.
7. Shoshani, S., Ratner, T., Piran, R., and Keinan E. “Biologically Relevant Molecular Finite Automata” IJC 2011; 51: 67 – 86.
8. Chung, C-H., Hao, E., Piran, R., Keinan, E., and Levine, F. “Pancreatic β-Cell Neogenesis by Direct Conversion from Mature α-Cells”. Stem Cells 2010; 28:1630-1638.
9. Chung, C-H., Hao, E., Piran, R., and Levine, F. “Adult alpha Cells Can Function as beta Cell Progenitors in a Novel Pancreatic Injury Model” Diabetes 2010; 59: A450-A450
10. Piran, R., Halperin, E., Guttmann-Raviv, N., Keinan, E. and Ram Reshef . “Algorithm of Myogenic Differentiation in Higher-order Organisms”. Development 2009; 136: 3831-3840
11. Cavaliere, M., Jonoska, N., Yogev, S., Piran, R., Keinan, E., and Seeman, N. C. “Biomolecular Implementation of Computing Devices with Unbounded Memory”. DNA Computing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). 2005; 3384: 35-49.
12. 2.  Maytal-Kivity, V., Pick, E., Piran, R., and Glickman, M.H. “The COP9 signalosome-like complex in S. cerevisiae and links with other PCI complexes”. Int. J. of Biochem. Cell Biol., 2003; 35: 706-715.
13. 1. Maytal-Kivity, V.*, Piran, R.*, Pick, E., Hofmann, K., and Glickman, M.H. “A COP9-signalosome complex components play a role in regulating the mating pheromone response in S. cerevisiae”. EMBO rep., 2002; 3(12): 1215-1221.                      *EQUALLY CONTRIBUTED

Book Chapters:

1. Ratner, T., Shoshani, S., Piran, R., and Ehud Keinan. “Biomolecular Information Processing: From Logic Systems to Smart Sensors and Actuators”, Katz, Evgeny (Ed.), VCH-Wiley, 2012; 145-179 (ISBN-10: 3-527-33195-6)
2. Piran, R. and Keinan, E. “In-vitro Evolution of Catalytic Antibodies and Other Proteins via Combinatorial Libraries”. Catalytic antibodies, Ehud Keinan (Ed), VCH-Wiley, 2005; 243-283.
3. Saphier, S., Piran, R. and Keinan, E. “Photoenzymes and photoabzymes”. Catalytic antibodies, Ehud Keinan (Ed), VCH-Wiley, 2005; 350-369.