Champions Oncology, Inc. announced the appointment of Ido Ben-Zvi, Ph.D., as Director of Bioinformatics and Machine Learning to exploit the company's wealth of oncology data from its TumorBank to support its Translational Oncology Solutions offerings for pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining Champions Oncology, Dr. Ben-Zvi was a visiting researcher with Microsoft Research. In this capacity, he led development of a system to analyze large amounts of data related to the search engine Bing.

Before this, he held multiple positions with Frontline PCB Solutions in software engineering, algorithm development and data mining. Earlier in his career, he held positions in software and algorithm development at Celltrex, Zapper and Technomatix.