The Tauro Career Development Chair in Biomedical Research
ronen.alon@weizmann.ac.il
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Prof. Ronen Alon The Tauro Career Development Chair in Biomedical Research ronen.alon@weizmann.ac.il |
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Ronen Alon Place and Date of Birth: Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 16, 1961 Married + 3 children
Current Address:Work: The Department of Immunology
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot 76100, IsraelTel: (08) 934-2482 Fax: (08) 934-4141 Email: ronen.alon@weizmann.ac.il
Education:1988 - 1992 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Department of Membrane Research and Biophysics
Ph.D. in Biophysics, 1993
Thesis topic: Cell adhesion properties of streptavidin
Supervisor: Prof. M. Wilchek1984 - 1988 Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Faculty of Life Sciences
M.Sc. in Biochemistry, 1988, Cum Laude
Thesis topic: Liposomes as drug delivery systems Supervisor: Dr. R. MargalitFaculty of Exact Sciences
B.Sc. degree in Chemistry, 1987, Cum Laude
Employment History:2003 - present The Weizmann Institute of Science. The Department of Immunology, Associate Professor 2003 - 2004 Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA., visiting professor in the lab of Dr. F.W.Luscinskas 1996 - 2003 The Weizmann Institute of Science, The Department of Immunology, Senior Investigator 1993-1996 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Center for Blood Research and the Department of Pathology
Research Fellow at the lab of Dr. Timothy A. Springer
Academic Administration:2001 - Israeli Immunological Society, Board Member 2002 - 2003 Biokine Therapeutics, Rehovot, member of the Advisory Board 2004 - Coordinator of the Weizmann Institute subnetwork of MAIN, an EU funded network of excellence on Migration in Inflammation (R. Pardi, Head)
Awards:February 1993 EMBO Long Term Research Fellowship April 1995 Dorot Foundation Research Fellowship October 1995 Alon Fellowship August 1997 Jakubskind-Cymerman Award January 1998 Incumbent of The Tauro Career Development Chair in Biomedical Research January 2004 Christian Crone Travel Award
Grants:Sept. 1997 - Aug. 1999 Israel Cancer Research Fund:
"VLA-4 function in tumor cells" – $36,000Sept. 1997 - Aug. 2000 Israel Science Foundation:
"Dynamics of VLA-4: VCAM-1 interactions" - $ 140,000Oct. 1998 - Sep. 2001 U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation:
"Biophysics of L-selectin adhesion under flow" - $100,000Jan. 1997 - Dec. 2000 Minerva Foundation: "Intracellular regulation of VLA-4 function" - $150,000 Oct. 2000 - Sept. 2004 Israel Science Foundation: "Mechanisms of chemokine-stimulated lymphocyte adhesion and migration under shear flow" - $200,000 Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2003 Minerva Foundation: "Regulation of integrin function by chemokines" - $150,000 July 2002 - June 2004 Pasteur-Weizmann Joint Research Program - $70,000 July 2003 - June 2006 NIH-Fogarty: Cytoplasmic regulation of α4β1 avidity at subsecond endothelial contacts: implications for spontaneous and chemokine-triggered lymphocyte adhesion to VCAM-1 – $90,000 Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2006 German Israeli Foundation: "Cytoskeletal regulation of VLA-4 and LFA-1 avidity at subsecond endothelial contacts"– 115,000 € Jan. 2004 - July 2005 MAIN (a 6th EU framework program for migration in inflammation): Chemokine signaling to leukocyte integrins at vessel wall: cytoskeletal machineries altering mechanical properties 140,000 € Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2008 Israel Science Foundation: "Mechanisms of chemokine-stimulated lymphocyte adhesion and migration under shear flow" - $220,000
Scientific Activities:1997 Invited Symposium speaker at the "2nd Zoo meeting on Cell Adhesion and Migration", Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1998 Invited Symposium plenary speaker and chair of workshop on biophysics of leukocyte-endothelial interactions at the Keystone Symposium on Molecular Mechanisms of Leukocyte Trafficking, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA 1998 Invited Speaker at the Institute Curie/Weizmann Institute Joint Workshop on Molecular Cytomechanics, Paris, France 2000 Invited Symposium speaker at the Israel Immunological Society Annual Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel 2000 Invited Symposium speaker at the International Meeting on Inflammatory Cytokines and Chemokines, Ma’ale Hachamisha, Israel 2000 Invited Symposium speaker at the 14th European Immunology Meeting EFIS 2000, Poznan, Poland 2000 Invited Plenary speaker at the Affinity and Biorecognition International Symposium, in Tribute to Meir Wilchek, Rehovot, Israel 2001 Invited Symposium speaker at the 17th DgfI (German Immunological Society) Spring Meeting Immunology 2001, Innsbruck, Austria 2001 Cell Biology Course, Invited Lecturer, University of Bern, Switzerland 2001 Invited Symposium speaker at the "3rd Zoo meeting on Cell Adhesion and Migration", Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2002 Invited Symposium speaker at the 3rd FISEB Congress, Eilat, Israel 2002 Invited Symposium speaker and session chair at the Experimental Biology 2002 (FASEB Annual Meeting), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 2002 Invited Symposium speaker at the Summer Research Conference on "Advances in Tetraspanin Research", FASEB 2002, Tucson, Arizona, USA 2002 Invited Symposium speaker at the Gordon Conference on Chemotactic Cytokines, S. Hadley, MA, USA 2002 Invited Symposium speaker on "Molecular Mechanisms of leukocyte traffic", in Schloss Ringberg Meeting of the Max-Planck-Institute for Vascular Biology, Germany 2002 Invited Symposium speaker at the Schering Research Foundation Workshop on “Leukocyte Trafficking: Role of Fucosyltransferases and Selectins”, Berlin, Germany 2003 Invited Symposium speaker at the Workshop on "Biology and Physics at Interfaces: From Single Molecules to Cells", Julich, Germany 2003 Invited Symposium speaker at the 1st Euregio-Symposium on Atherosclerosis, Vaals, The Netherlands 2004 Invited Speaker at the XIIIth International Vascular Biology Meeting 2004, Toronto, Canada 2004 Invited Speaker at the Gordon Conference on Chemoatactic Cytokines, Aussois, France 2004 Invited Speaker at the annual meeting of the Japaneese Immunoligical Society, Sapporo, Japan 2005 Invited speaker at the Eric Bywaters symposium on the inflammatory basis of vascular disease, London, U.K. 2005 Invited speaker at the Batsheva de Rothschild International Workshop on mast cell signaling and function in health and disease, Eilat, Israel 2005 Speaker at the Keystone Symposium on Leukocyte Trafficking, Taos, New Mexico, USA 2005 Invited speaker at the Wilhelm Und Else Heraeus-Stiftung Seminar on Dynamics of Cell and Tissue Structure, Ban Honnef , Germany 2006 Plenary speaker at the Keystone Symposium on chemokines and chemokine receptors, Snowbird, Utah, USA 2006 Plenary speaker at the EMBO workshop for Signals and Mechanics in Directed Cell Migration, Heidelberg, Germany
Patents:
Interference with RGD-dependent cell function by non-peptidic derivatives of the Arg-Gly-Asp sequence. U.S. patent # 5.519.005