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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, Cellular and Medical biology from Bar-Ilan University

M.Sc degree in Neurobiology from Bar-Ilan University 

Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Neurobiology researching the role of cellular senescence in glial cells and its effect on brain metabolism and pathology in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

Elisa Gozlan 

Ph.D 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 Pre Med from Ariel University

Pursuing a Ph.D, studying the role and therapeutic potential of metabolic changes in astrocytes in Parkinson's disease 

Yarden Lewit Cohen

Ph.D Candidate 

 

B.A in behavioral science from Ariel university

Currently pursuing a Masters degree focusing on developing therapeutic tools to improve metabolic impairments in neurodegenerative diseases

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Kira Kossowsky

M.Sc Candidate 

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B.Sc in Molecular Biology from Tel-Aviv University

 

 

Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Neuroscience. Researching the role of PS1 mutation in the progression of AD, and the mechanism underlying its pathological phenotype in the disease

David Kaminsky

M.Sc Candidate 

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B.Sc in Biology from Tel Aviv University

 

Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Neurobiology researching the effects of metabolic stress on Parkinson's disease

Dana Frenkel

M.Sc Candidate 

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B.Sc in Biochemistry from Technion

 

 

Currently pursuing a Ph.D degree in Neuroscience. Researching changes in microglia and astrocytes that correlates with the development of multiple sclerosis

Tamar Shalet

Ph.D Candidate 

 

B.Sc and MS.c in biotechnology engineering from Ben-Gurion University

 

 

Currently pursuing a Ph.D degree in Neuroscience using iPSCs to investigate impaired neuron–glia communication in neurodegenerative diseases.

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Raz Ofan

Ph.D Candidate 

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