Prof. Atan Gross is in a relationship with Rotem and has two boys Gil (23) and Eyal (21).
Prof. Gross earned his PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, performed his Postdoctoral studies at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and joined the Department of Biological Regulation at the Weizmann Institute in 2000.
The major research topics of the Gross lab evolve around how mitochondria act as “headquarters” to coordinate metabolism and apoptosis and the relevance to disease.