Zvi Livneh - Curriculum Vitae

1968-1971	B.Sc. in Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv.
1971-1974	Military Service.
1975-1980	Ph.D. studies, Feinberg graduate School, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot. Supervisors: Prof. J. Sperling and the late Prof. D. Elad. Subject: Photochemical and free radical damage to DNA and its repair.
1981-1983	Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. I. R. Lehman, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine.
1984-1985	Scientist, Biochemistry Dept., Weizmann Institute of Science.
1986-1989	Senior Scientist, Biochemistry Dept., Weizmann Institute of Science.
1989-1999	Associate Professor, Biochemistry Dept., now the Biological Chemistry Dept., Weizmann Institute of Science.
1992	Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
1993-1997	Head of The Biochemistry Department, Weizmann Institute of Science.
1999-	Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science
2002-	Head of The Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science
Major Research Interests DNA Repair and Mutagenesis; Biochemistry; Molecular Genetics; Cancer Research;
Awards and Fellowships
1976	Awarded a distinction prize of the Feinberg Graduate School.
1979	Awarded the J. F. Kennedy Memorial Prize.
1981-1982	Awarded the Dr. Chaim Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellowship.
1983	Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, American Cancer Society, California Division.
1984-1985	Special Fellow of the Leukemia Society of America.
1986-1989	Awarded the Yigal Alon Scholarship
1995	Awarded the Morris L. Levinson Prize of the Weizmann Institute of Science
1997	The Maxwell Ellis Professorial Chair in Biomedical Research
2002	Awarded the Israel Sarov Memorial Prize of the Israel Society for Microbiology