Group Members

Research Alumni

Principal Investigators who have been students, fellows or long-term visitors in the laboratory of Irun Cohen

• Hartmut Wekerle

  Professor and Emeritus Director at the MPI of Neurobiology in Munich. Chairman (Dean) of the Biological-Medical Section of the Max Planck Society (1999-2003). Germany.

   

• Lawrence Steinman

  Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Pediatrics, and Genetics, and Chair of the Stanford University Program in Immunology. Stanford.

   

• Willem van Eden

  Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases and  Immunology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

   

• Arthur A. Vandenbark

  Career Research Scientist and Professor of Neurology and Immunology at Oregon Health and Science University. Portland.

   

• Arie Belldegrun

  Professor of Urology, Chief of the Division of Urologic Oncology, and

  Chair in Urologic Oncology. UCLA.

   

• Daniel M. Altmann

  Professor of Immunology, Department of Immunology,

  Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London.

   

• Daniel Douek

  Section Chief, Human Immunology Section, Vaccine Research Center,

  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH.

   

• Yaakov Naparstek

  Chairman of Medicine at Hadassah University Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem.

   

• Ansgar W. Lohse

  Professor of Medicine, University Medical Centre Hamburg, Germany.

   

• Amnon Altman

  Head/Member, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. La Jolla.

   

• Rene R. de Vries

  Professor, Department of Immunohematology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden.

   

• Takashi Yamamura

  Director, National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP and

  Director, Multiple Sclerosis Center, NCNP. Tokyo

   

• Maria Giovanna Danieli

  Professor of Immunology, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, It

   

• Avraham Ben-Nun

  Professor of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science.

   

• Joseph Holoshitz

  Professor of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, University of Michigan. Anne Arbor, MI.

   

• Ofer Lider (deceased)

  Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science.

   

• Anat Achiron

  Professor, Tel Aviv University Medical School and Director, Multiple Sclerosis Center, Sheba Medical Center. Tel Hashomer, Israel.

   

• Evelyne Béraud

  Laboratoire d’Immunologie, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseillle. France

   

• Bartelt de Jongh

  Medical Microbiologist, Laboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda,

  The Netherlands

   

• Aaron Friedman

  Professor of Immunology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University; Vice-president, Hebrew University.

   

• Felix Mor

  Associate Professor of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Medical School, Tel Aviv.

   

• Zvi Lapidot

  Professor of Immunology, Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science.

   

• Nathan Karin

  Professor of Immunology, Technion Medical School, Haifa.

   

• Oz M. Shapira

  Professor, Director, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem

   

• Boris Reizis

  Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, NY.

   

• Ohad Birk

  Professor, Director, Genetics Institute, Medical School, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.

   

• Yoram Louzoun

  Professor, Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan University. Ramat Gan. Israel.

   

• Yehuda Chowers

  Professor, head the Gastroenterology Institute at Rambam Hospital and an associate professor in the Technion Faculty of Medicine. Haifa, Israel

   

   

• Gabriel Nussbaum

  Senior Lecturer, Dental School, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem.

   

• Enrique Montero

  Center of Molecular Immunology, Havana, Cuba.

   

• Johannes Herkel

  Department of Medicine, University of Hamburg, Germany.

   

• Neta Erez

  Senior Lecturer, Department of Pathology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

   

• Yifat Merbl

  Senior Scientist, Department of Immunology Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

   

• Varda Levram-Ellisman

  Project Scientist, Pharmacology,

  University of California, San Diego CA

   

• Micha Rapoport

  Professor of Medicine, Asaf Harofe Hospital, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv

   

• Raanan Margalit

  Founder and CEO, Science in Action,

  Science Park, Ness Ziona, Israel

   

• Nahum Shpigel

  Associate Professor - School of Veterinary Medicine

  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

   

• Doron Markovits

  Attending, Unit of Rheumathology, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

   

• Ofer Markman

  Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder, NutriCognia Ltd, Israel

   

• Ariel Miller

  Professor of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel

   

• Yaron Tikochinsky

  Manager, Genetico Ltd.,

  Incentive Technological R&D Center

  Ariel, Israel

   

• Jana Shaw (Bockova)

  Associate Professor of Pediatrics

  Pediatric Infectious Diseases

  SUNY Upstate Medical University

  Syracuse, NY

   

• Arie Ingber

  Professor, Dermatology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem

   

• Sol Efroni

  Associate Professor, Computational Biology, Bar Ilan University, Israel

• Alexandra Zanin-Zhorov

  Vice President, Head of Immunology, Kadmon Pharmaceuticals, New York NY

   

• Noam Cohen

  Scientist, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel

   

• Avishai Mimran

  Scientist, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel

   

• Uri Hershberg

  Associate Professor, Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems

  Drexel University, Philadelphia PA

   

• Rivka Abulafia-Lapid

  Director, Research Laboratory, Dept. of Medical Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem

   

• Ilan Volovitz

  Director, Immunotherapy Research Laboratory

  Tel Aviv Sourasky Medial Center, Tel Aviv