Group

Principal investigator

Phone +972-8-934-2467

Location Arison Neurobiology Building , room 221

Michal Schwartz, Professor of Neuroimmunology, 
Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Israel Prize recipient, in Life Science, 2023. For details related to prizes and honors »

Current position

Professor of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer of ImmunoBrain Checkpoint (biopharma). Developing an immune checkpoint antibody currently in clinical trial for Alzheimer’s disease

Education

  • BSc with distinction, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
  • PhD, Chemical Immunology, with honors.
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Neuroimmunology, Weizmann Institute, Israel
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Nerve Regeneration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Publications (H factor 120, Google scholar); for a full list »
2016-2018, President of the International Society of Neuroimmunology

  • Prof. Yaffa Mizrachi

    PhD

    Faculty member Ben-Gurion University

  • Dr. Adrian Harel

    Msc, PhD

    Biotech

  • Dr. Avi Cohen

    Msc, PhD

    Biotech

  • Dr. Ilana Cohen

    PhD

    Biotech

  • Dr. Eran Blaugund

    PhD

    Biotech

  • Dr. Mirit Lotan

    MSc, PhD

    Senior Patent Attorney

  • Dr. Tomer Sivron

    MSc, PhD

    Recipient of PhD award
    Clinical psychologist

  • Dr. Revital Duvdevani

    MSc, PhD

    Biotech

  • Prof. Jasmin Fisher

    PhD

    Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge

  • Dr. Igor Friedman

    PhD

    Biotech

  • Prof. Shoshan Eitan

    MSc, PhD

    Recipient of MSc and PhD awards

    Faculty member, Texas A&M University

  • Prof. Orly Lazarov

    MSC, PhD

    Recipient of PhD award

    Faculty member, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Prof. Anat Faber-Helman

    PhD

    Faculty member, Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research

  • Dr. Gila Moalem

    PhD

    Recipient of PhD award

    Faculty member, University of New South Wales Australia Sydney

  • Prof. Alon Monsonego

    PhD

    Faculty member, Ben Gurion University

  • Dr. Ehud Hauben

    MSc, PhD

    Business Development, Technology Transfer & IP advisor at Leiden University Medical Center

  • Prof. Uri Nevo

    MSc, PhD

    Faculty member, Tel Aviv University

  • Prof. Jonathan Kipnis

    MSc, PhD

    Recipient of MSc and PhD awards

    Faculty member, University of Virginia

  • Dr. Hila Avidan

    MSc, PhD

    Teva

  • Dr. Tal Mizrahi

    MSc, PhD

  • Dr. Yaniv Ziv

    MSc, PhD

    Recipient of MSc and PhD awards

    Faculty member, Weizmann Institute

  • Dr. Asya Rolls

    PhD

    Recipient of PhD award

    Faculty member, Technion

  • Dr. Oleg Butovsky

    MSc, PhD

    Faculty member, Harvard Medical School

  • Dr. Noga Ron-Harel

    MSc, PhD

    Recipient of MSc and PhD awards

    Faculty member, Technion

  • Dr. Michal Cardon

    MSc, PhD

    Recipient of MSc award

    Biotech

  • Dr. Gilad Kunis

    MSc, PhD

    Biotech

  • Dr. Catarina Raposo

    MSc, PhD

    Biotech

  • Dr. Anat London

    MSc, PhD

    Patent Attorney

  • Dr. Ravid Shechter

    MSc, PhD

    Recipient of PhD award

    Biotech

  • Dr. Omer Miller

    PhD

    Biotech

  • Dr. Kuti Baruch

    PhD

    Recipient of PhD award

    ImmunoBrain Checkpoint, Ltd.

  • Dr. Inbal Benhar

    MSc, PhD

    Postdoc

  • Dr. Merav Cohen

    PhD

    Postdoc, Weizmann Institute

  • Dr. Aleksandra Deczkowska

    MSc, PhD

    Recipient of PhD award

    Postdoc, Weizmann Institute

  • Dr. Orit Matcovitch-Natan

    PhD

    Biothec

  • Dr. Alexander Kertser

    PhD

    ImmunoBrain Checkpoint, Ltd.