Personal
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Education |
1981-1982
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Research Associate with Floyd Bloom, Behavioral Neurobiology (Salk Institute and visiting scientist, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, USA)
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| 1979-1981 |
Chaim Weizmann Research Fellow, Michael A. Moskowitz, Richard J. Wurtman, Neuroendocrine Regulation (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
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| 1979 |
Ph.D. (Neurobiology, Uriel Z. Littauer), Feinberg Graduate School, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Landau Prize of excellence. |
| 1972 |
B.Sc. Tel Aviv University, Biology, Wise Faculty of Life Science |
Academic Positions |
| 1997 |
The Lily and Avraham Gildor Chair for the Investigation of Growth Factors, Tel Aviv University, Israel;
(http://www.gildor.net/foundation_projects.html)
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| 1995-1996 |
Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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| 1994-1995 |
Chairperson, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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| 1993-1994 |
Chairperson, Department of Chemical Pathology, and Chairperson of Preclinical Department Heads, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| 1993 |
Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Teva Award for excellent research. |
| 1990-1992 |
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Pathology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Juludan Award. |
| 1989 |
Visiting Scientist, Invited Guest Scientist (Summers, SDMP, Douglas E. Brenneman) Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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| 1988-1989 |
Sabbatical, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics (with Heiner Westphal)
NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA |
| 1987-1989 |
Associate Professor, Department of Hormone Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
| 1982-1987 |
ASenior Scientist, Department of Hormone Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
Selected Additional Academic and Professional Activities: |
| 2002 |
Chief Executive Scientist, Allon Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA |
| 2001 |
Organizer (with D.E. Brenneman, 2003) The American Summer Neuropeptide Conference; (with T.W. Moody, 2002 and 2001, 2001 also the ENC, with P. Geppetti) The American Summer Neuropeptide Conference,(http://www.inps.org/body_frm.html); (http://www.scicons.com/neuropeptides2001.htm)
Guest Editor:Neuropeptide-based Drug Design: Current Pharmaceutical Design, (http://www.bentham.org/cpd/instruction.html)
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| 2000 |
Head (with J.P.Schwartz) the NIH/TAU student program in Women Health
Member the Scientific Advisory Committee for Life Sciences, Clore Foundation, Israel
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| 1999 |
Member, scientific advisory board: the Institute for the Study of Aging, NY, USA http://www.aging-institute.org/
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| 1998 |
Editor, The Journal of Molecular Neuroscience (JMN), Humana Press http://humanapress.com
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