Scholarships / Fellowships

Investigating the Link between Astrocyte Cellular Senescence and Gender in the Development of alpha-synuclein Pathology in Parkinson’s Disease

• Yarden Lewit Cohen | Ph.D. Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Prof. Dan Frenkel

Identification of molecular signatures in peripheral autonomic neurons associated with Parkinson’s disease

• Tamar Gordon | Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisors: Prof. Avraham Ashkenazi

Wearable Technology and Machine Learning to Identify people with a High Risk of Developing Parkinson's Disease

• Yonatan Brand | Ph.D. Student, Bio-Medical Engineering
  
  Advisors: Prof. Jeffrey Hausdorff | Dr. Or Perlman

Unraveling “Metabolostasis”: homeostasis of metabolite aggregation as a novel therapeutic target in neurodegeneration

• Hanaa Adsi | Postdoctoral Researcher, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisors: Prof. Ehud Gazit

Investigating GLP-1 Receptor Agonists as a Novel Therapeutic Approach for Parkinson’s Disease Using Advanced iPSCs-Derived In Vitro Models

• Raneen Nicola | Postdoctoral Researcher, Bio-Medical Engineering
  
  Advisors: Prof. Uri Ashery | Dr. Ben Maoz

Synaptotagmin 9, an overlooked player in Parkinson’s disease

• Priyangana Deb | Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Prof. Ronit Sagi-Eisenberg

Nir Giladi Legacy

Crossing the Barrier: A Novel 3D Parkinson's Disease Model with Blood-Brain Barrier Integration

• Vania Altobelli | Ph.D. Student, Department of Oral Biology, The Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
  
  Advisor: Prof. Lihi Adler-Abramovich

Ultrasound-Activated Therapeutic loaded Nanodroplets for Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Targeted Treatment

• Tiran Bercovici | Ph.D. Student, Bio-Medical Engineering
  
  Advisor: Dr. Tali Ilovitsh

Dissecting the Role of SNCA Variants and THC in Modulating Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease: Insights from UK Biobank and In Vitro Models

• Tehila Cohen | Ph.D. Student, Gray Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology
  
  Advisor: Prof. Noam Shomron

Optical Monitoring of Therapeutic Processes Using Carbon Nanotube Sensors Encapsulated in Hydrogel Implants

• Shirel Kleiner | Ph.D. Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
  
  Advisor: Prof. Gili Bisker

Engineering 3D human dopaminergic implants

• Lior Perry Tomer | Ph.D. Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
  
  Advisor: Prof. Tal Dvir

Automatic detection of FOG from 2D video recordings in Complex Environments

• Arie Shkolnikov | Ph.D. Student, Bio-Medical Engineering
  
  Advisors: Prof. Jeffrey Hausdorff | Dr. Or Perlman