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MEET THE TEAM

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Awarded for Outstanding Young Scientist by the Human Frontier Science Program Organization

Four granted patents approved in USA for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

Published in an array of scientific journals including the Journal of clinical investigation, Nature Annals of Neurology, the Proceeding National Academy of Science, Nature communication, Neurobiology of Aging and Neurobiology of disease

Prof. Dan Frenkel

Principal Investigator 

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B.Sc in Molecular Biology from Ariel University

 

 

Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Neurobiology focused on targeting the role of elevation in p16 of microglia in neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease.

Reli Levy 

M.Sc Candidate 

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B.Sc in Life Sciences from Tel Aviv University .

Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Neurobiology researching the role of metabolic changes in Parkinson's Disease 

Rawaa Ishtewy 

M.Sc Candidate 

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B.Sc in Cell and Molecular Biology from Macaulay Honors College at John Jay College of Criminal Justice 

Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Neurobiology researching the role and potential therapeutic application of dysregulated metabolic enzymes in an EAE model of Multiple Sclerosis and clinical patients. 

Alexandra Aaliyah Hay 

M.Sc Candidate 

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B.Sc in Biology from Tel Aviv University

 

 

Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Neurobiology focused on classifying the role of insulin activity in neurodegenerative diseases.

Greta Schwartz 

M.Sc Candidate 

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B.Sc in Life Sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

M.Sc and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Tel Aviv university

Dr. Shani Kanfi

Lab Manager

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B.Sc in Pharmacology from

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Hyderabad Campus. 

Pursuing a Masters Degree, studying the role and therapeutic potential of metabolic enzymes in Alzheimer's Disease pathology.

Tabitha Grace Royal

M.Sc Candidate 

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B.Sc in Biology from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology 

Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Neurobiology researching the role of aging in Alzheimers Disease.

Ellon Nabet 

M.Sc Candidate 

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B.Sc in Psychobiology from Ben Gurion University 

 

 

Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Neuroscience. My master's aim is understanding the role of PS1 mutation in the progression of AD, and the mechanism underlying its pathological phenotype in the disease

Maria Natan 

M.Sc Candidate 

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Pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Biology from Tel Aviv University 

Jointly responsible for husbandry and management of animals used throughout the lab. 

Working in collaboration with a masters student to elucidate the role of insulin in Alzheimers disease

Gabrielle Ficher Gammal

Project Student  

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