I. Positions and training
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Director, The Grodetsky Center for Research of Higher Brain Functions. Weizmann Institute of Science |
2000-present |
Foreign Director at the Max Planck Institute for Medicine at Heidelberg |
1998-2000 |
Guest staff member at the Frontier Research Program, Riken, Japan |
1996-2002 |
Director, The Dominic Institute for Brain Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science |
2000-2002 |
Director of the Arison human brain imaging laboratory |
1994-1996 |
Chairman, Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science |
1985-1991 |
Visiting Professor at The Rockefeller University, the Laboratory of Neurobiology (Head, Prof. T.N. Wiesel) |
1986-1991 |
IBM Research Staff Member; Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
1987 |
Professor at the Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute |
1982 |
Tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science |
1978 |
Senior Scientist at the Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute |
1975-1978 |
Research Associate at the Department of Physiology, Yale University, School of Medicine in the laboratory of Prof. L.B. Cohen |
1974-1975 |
Research Associate at the Hebrew University Hadassah School of Medicine. Research of synaptic physiology; laboratory of Prof. Rahamimoff |
1970-1974 |
Ph.D. studies in spectroscopy and biophysics at the Weizmann Institute.
Thesis title: Fluorescence Decay Kinetics: Measurement, Analysis and Application in Chemical and Biological Research. Instructors: Professors I.Z. Steinberg and E. Katzir-Katchalski |
1969-1970 |
M.Sc. studies in organic chemistry and physical organic chemistry (mostlyNMR) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Instructor: Prof. M. Rabinovitz |
1965-1968 |
B.Sc. studies in chemistry and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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| II. Research interests |
Information processing in the mammalian cortex; cortical structure & function; coding by neuronal cell assemblies |
| Developing of optical methods for imaging of neuronal activity and of microvascular responses in the living brain |
Clinical applications of optical imaging and early diagnosis and treatment of ophthalmic diseases |
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| III. Fellowships |
1974 |
Aharon Katzir Katchalsky Exchange Fellow |
1975 |
Long Term EMBO Fellow. (European Molecular Biology Organization) |
1975-1978 |
Fulbright-Hays Fellow (from USA Dept. of State) |
1977-1978 |
Muscular Dystrophy Association Fellow |
1980 |
Steps Toward Independence Fellow, MBL, Woods Hole.( USA ) |
1980-1982 |
Incumbent of Helena Rubinstein Career Development Chair |
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IV. Honors |
1974 |
Aharon Katzir Katchalsky Exchange Fellow |
1975 |
Long Term EMBO Fellow. (European Molecular Biology Organization) |
1975-1978 |
Fulbright-Hays Fellow (from USA Dept. of State) |
1977-1978 |
Muscular Dystrophy Association Fellow |
1980 |
Steps Toward Independence Fellow, MBL, Woods Hole.( USA ) |
1980-1982 |
Incumbent of Helena Rubinstein Career Development Chair |
2006 |
Elected member of the Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla, California, USA |
IV. Prizes |
1968 |
Prize for B.Sc., with distinction (awarded by Hebrew Univ) |
1970 |
Prize for M.Sc., with special distinction (awarded by Hebrew Univ) |
1973 |
Prize for Ph.D. with Distinction (The Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute) |
1981 |
S. Zachs biannual prize for research during 1978-80 (The Weizmann Institute Scientific Council) |
1982 |
E. and M. Elkes prize for outstanding young scientist (The Israel Center for Psychobiology) |
1994 |
The Wolfson Foundation Center of Excellence |
1994 |
The Israel Science Foundation Center of Excellence (Ullman, Ahissar, Aertsen & Grinvald) |
1995 |
The Teva Prize for Central Nervous System Research |
1996 |
The Norman and Helen Asher Professorial Chair in Brain Research |
1998 |
Guest staff member at the Frontier Research Program at Riken, Japan |
1998 |
Elected member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
1999 |
The Wirsma Professorship (awarded by the Caltech faculty) |
1999 |
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
2000 |
The Koerber's 2000 Europe Prize |
2000 |
Elected as a foreign member of the Max Planck Society |
2002 |
Guest staff member at the Frontier Research Program at Riken, Japan |
2003 |
Harvard " Alice and Joseph Brooks International Lecture on the Neurosciences" |
2004 |
Dan David International Prize for Brain Research |
| 2006 |
The 48th Robert J. Terry Lecture, Washington University, School of Medicine, USA |
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| V. Society memberships |
| Organization for Human Brain Mapping |
| American Society for Neuroscience |
| European Society for Neuroscience |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Israel Physiological and Pharmacological Society |
| Israeli Society for Neuroscience |
| International Society for Imaging in the Eye |
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| VI. Editorial Board |
| Vision Research |
| BioImaging |
| NeuroImaging |
| J. of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism |
| Current Opinion in Neurobiology |
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| VII. Past and present research grants support obtained in Israel |
| National Institute of Health (NINCDS; USA) |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association (USA) |
| P.V.A. Technological Research Foundation (USA) |
| U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (USA-Israel) |
| Israel Academy for Science and Humanities (Israel) |
| The Israel Center for Psychobiology (Israel) |
| European Molecular Biology Organization (Europe) |
| The Jewish Agency (Israel) |
| Bat Sheva de Rothschild Foundation (Israel) |
| March of Dimes (USA) |
| DuPont Corporation (USA) |
| The Klingenstein Foundation (USA) |
The US Air-Force (USA) |
| IBM Corporation (USA) |
| The Riklis Foundation (Rockefeller-Weizmann grants, USA, Israel) |
| Schilling Foundation for Biomedical Research (Germany) |
| The Wolfson Foundation (England) |
| The Israel Science Foundation (Israel) |
| The Minerva Foundation (Germany) |
| The German Israeli Foundation (GIF) (Germany/Israel) |
| The German Israeli Research Program (Germany Israel) |
| The Koerber's Europe Research Prize (Germany) |
| The Israel Science Foundation (Israel) |
| EU Multi center grant |
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