Prof. Idit Shachar, Curriculum Vitae
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Professor Idit Shachar
Incumbent of the Dr. Morton And Anne Kleiman Professorial Chair Department of Immunology Weizmann Institue of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100 Office: Wolfson Building, Room 427 Tel: +972-8-934-4257 E-mail: idit.shachar@weizmann.ac.il |
| Place and Date of Birth | |
| Israel, September 4th, 1964 | |
| Education | |
| 1984-1987 | B.Sc., with honors, in Biology
Tel-Aviv University, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences |
| 1987-1989 | M.Sc., with honors, in Biochemistry
Tel-Aviv University, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, under the supervision of Dr. Shoshana Bar-Nun |
| 1989-1993 | Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Thesis title: "The Molecular Basis for Sorting, Transport and Secretion of IgM", under the supervision of Dr. Shoshana Bar-Nun |
| Employment History | |
| 1984 | Guest scientist with Dr. R. Fine
Boston University Medical Center (four months) |
| 1993-1997 | Post doctoral fellow with Dr. R.A. Flavell, Yale School of Medicine |
| 1998-2004 | Senior Scientist, Department of Immunology
The Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 2004-present | Associate Professor in the Department of Immunology
The Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Academic Administration | |
| 1998-present | Israel Immunological Society, Board Member |
| 1998-present | American Association of Immunologists, Board Member |
| 2007-2010 | Member in the Research and Administration Service Committee |
| 2007-2010 | Member in the FEBS Fellowship Committee |
| 2006-present | Member in the Theses Committee |
| 2007-present | Member in the Katzir fellowships Committee |
| 2008-2010 | Consulting to CytoD, Meytav Technology Incubator |
| 2009-present | Head of the Theses Committee |
| Awards | |
| 1983-1988 | Dean's Honor |
| 1991 | Travel award: ASCB meeting |
| 1989-1993 | Dean's Graduate award: Faculty of Life Sciences. Tel-Aviv University |
| 1993 | Wolf Foundation award: Wolf Foundation, Israel |
| 1993-1994 | Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Rothschild Foundation, Israel |
| 1995-1998 | Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Irvington Institute for Medical Research, USA |
| 1997 | Young Scientists Fellowship: Alon Foundation |
| 2000 | Incumbent of the Alvin and Gertrude Levine Career Development Chair of Cancer Research |
| 2001 | Investigator prize: ISF prize for advancing education and science |
| 2003 | Teva prize: for excellence in research |
| 2005 | Incumbent of the Dr. Morton and Ann Kleiman Professorial Chair |
| Research Grants (last five years) | ||
| 2004-2008 | EU | 90,000 € |
| 2005-2008 | Israel Science Foundation | 120,000 $ |
| 2005-2006 | Israel Cancer Association | 10,000 $ |
| 2005-2008 | EU | 50,000 € |
| 2007-2010 | Minerva | 150,000 $ |
| 2008-2011 | Israel Science Foundation-Morasha | 150,000 $ |
| 2009-2011 | Israel Science Foundation | 100,000 $ |
| 2011 | Israel Cancer Association | 40,000 $ |
| 2011-2015 | Israel Science Foundation | 200,000 $ |
| 2011-2013 | Kamin | 200,000 $ |
| Invited Seminars (last five years) | |
| 06/2008 | Laboratory for Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research, LIMCR
Federal Hospital Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 08/2008 | New York University School of Medicine
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NY, U.S.A. |
| 10/2009 | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, U.S.A. |
| 09/2010 | Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Texas, U.S.A. |
| 01/2011 | Department of experimental Immunology and Hematology
The Academic Medical Center Amsterdam University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Invited Lectures in International Meetings (last five years) | |
| 10/2008 | McGill Weizmann symposium: "Cancer-a cellular and molecular view", Rehovot, Israel Invited speaker |
| 02/2009 | Keystone meeting: "B cells in context" Workshop speaker |
| 06/2009 | Marie Curie conference: "Immunology of HIV and TB infection", Stockholm, Sweden Invited speaker |
| 06/2009 | DFG sponsored Collaborative Research Center on Immunodeficiency (SFB 620): "New Developments in Immunodeficiency Research" Freiburg, Germany. Invited speaker |
| 11/2009 | "The essential role of B cells in autoimmune diseases",
Technion, Haifa Israel Invited speaker |
| 12/2009 | "International MIF symposium" Schloß Hochhausen, Germany Invited speaker |
| 02/2010 | Strasburg-Weizmann symposium, Rehovot, Israel Invited speaker |
| 03/2010 | "Immunity in context", Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel Organizer and speaker |
| 04/2010 | 6th International Symposium on "Cytokine Signaling", Aachen, Germany Invited speaker |
| 03/2011 | Manchester-Weizmann meeting, Manchester, England Invited speaker |
| 05/2011 | "International MIF symposium", New-Haven, CT, USA Invited speaker |
| 06/2011 | ESF-EMBO: B cells and Protection: Back to Basics, Spain Invited speaker |
| 10/2011 | First French-Israeli International Meeting on B cells and Therapeutic Antibodies Jerusalem, Israel. Invited speaker |
| 11/2011 | 2nd meeting on B cells and Autoimmunity, Haifa, Israel Invited speaker |
| 11/2011 | 2nd excellence in Midkine research conference, Instanbul, Turkey Invited speaker |
| 09/2012 | IUBMB and FEBS 2012 Congress, Seville, Spain Invited symposium speaker |
| 09/2012 | "International MIF symposium", Louisville, KT, USA Invited symposium speaker |
| Patents | |