Scholarships / Fellowships

Motor imbalance in Parkinson patients: Its relation to multi-sensory integration

• Yael Yaakov| MSc Student, Faculty of Social Sciences
  
  Advisor: Prof. Matti Mintz

Quantitative Analysis of Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI

• Sapir Fajerzstein  | MSc Student, Faculty Of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Dafna Ben Bashat

Amyloid-like fibrils of lipids – novel cause of Parkinson's in sphingolipidoses

• Pushpendra Mani Mishra | Postdoctoral Researcher, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Prof. Daniel Segal

Regulating molecular aging by the engineering of a bispecific CTLA4-VISTA for a tunable immune response

• Adi Cohen | Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Maayan Gal

The involvement of ApoE4 in Parkinson's Disease

• Lior Nechushtai | Ph.D. Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Ronit Pinkas Kramarski

Targeting CD157+ myeloid cells during Parkinson’s Disease

• Adi Tessler| MSc Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisors: Lior Mayo

Metabolite self-assembly in Parkinson’s

• Ilana Sogolovsky-Bard| Ph.D. Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisors: Prof. Ehud Gazit, Limor Broday

Brain imaging changes in neurodegenerative diseases: An advanced MRI study

• Rotem Orad | PhD Student, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Prof. Dafna Ben Bashat

Intracellular seeding of α-synuclein aggregation by self-assemblies

• Kumar Sourav | Postdoctoral Researcher, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Prof. Daniel Segal

2021-2022

Establishing an in vitro platform for studying a-Syn aggregates propagation

• Yifat Weiss | MSc Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Prof. Uri Ashery

The transcriptomic basis of THC micro-dose induced neuroprotection

• Guy Shapira  | PhD Student, Faculty Of Medicine
  Advisor: Prof. Noam Shomron

A novel machine learning system for manual dexterity training in patients with PD

• Hila Tamir Ostrover | Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Jason Friedman 

The involvement of APOE4 in Parkinson's disease

• Lior Nechushtai | Ph.D. Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Ronit Pinkas Kramarski

The role of extracellular vesicles in the progression and pathology of PD

• Shay Herman | Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Ronit Daniel Offen

Seeding of amyloids in Parkinson's disease: The involvement of neurometabolites assemblies in the initiation of pathological processes

• Dorin Sade Yazdi| PhD Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisors: Prof. Ehud Gazit

Glucosylceramide, a major substrate in Gaucher disease forms amyloid-like fibrils that induce α-Synuclein aggregation.

• Vijay Kumar | Postdoctoral Researcher, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisors: Prof. Daniel Segal

Establishing an in vitro platform for studying α-Syn aggregates propagation

• Yifat Weiss | MSc Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience
  
  Advisor: Prof. Uri Ashery

Characterization of α-Synuclein secretion mechanisms in Parkinson's disease

• Stav Cohen Adiv | PhD Student, Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience
  
  Advisor: Avraham Ashkenazi

Amyloid-like aggregates of a Gaucher disease metabolite seed aggregation of α-Synuclein: Mechanism and development of novel therapeutics for Parkinson’s disease

• Paul Ashim| Postdoctoral Researcher, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Prof. Daniel Segal

Establishing alpha-synuclein aggregates traits in peripheral human tissues and biofluids as new Parkinson’s disease biomarkers

• Noa Barak Broner  | Postdoctoral Researcher, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience
  
  Advisor: Prof. Uri Ashery

Elucidating the role and underlying mechanisms of Rab12 functions

• Jana Omar | PhD Student, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Prof. Ronit Sagi Eisenberg

Treatment of LRRK2-related Parkinson’s patients through immunotherapy

• Roy Rabinowitz | Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience
  
  Advisor: Prof. Daniel Offen

2019-2020

Testing a Possible Genetic Interaction Between GBA1 and LRRK2

• Vera Serebryany | MSc Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Prof Mia Horowitz

Rotenone Toxicity Cellular Model to Test SKIP as a Disease-Modifying Intervention
in PD

• Yanina Ivashko-Pachima | Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Prof. Illana Gozes

Mechanisms of Post-Transcriptional Modifications in the Regulation of Mammalian Macroautophagy

• Margarita Galves | MSc Student, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisors: Avraham Ashkenazi

The Molecular Mechanism of GDNF Transport in Parkinson Disease

• Luba Farberov | Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience
  
  Advisor: Prof. Eran Perlson

Developing a Super-Resolution Microscopy Platform for Early Detection of Alpha Synuclein Aggregation in Human Body Fluids

• Noa Barak | Postdoctoral Researcher, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience
  
  Advisor: Prof. Uri Ashery

Amyloid-like fibrils of lipids – novel cause of Parkinson's in sphingolipidoses

• Pushpendra Mani Mishra | Postdoctoral Researcher, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Prof. Daniel Segal

Regulating molecular aging by the engineering of a bispecific CTLA4-VISTA for a tunable immune response

• Adi Cohen | Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Maayan Gal

The involvement of ApoE4 in Parkinson's Disease

• Lior Nechushtai | Ph.D. Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Ronit Pinkas Kramarski

Targeting CD157+ myeloid cells during Parkinson’s Disease

• Adi Tessler| MSc Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisors: Lior Mayo

Metabolite self-assembly in Parkinson’s

• Ilana Sogolovsky-Bard| Ph.D. Student, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisors: Prof. Ehud Gazit, Limor Broday

Brain imaging changes in neurodegenerative diseases: An advanced MRI study

• Rotem Orad | PhD Student, Faculty of Medicine
  
  Advisor: Prof. Dafna Ben Bashat

Intracellular seeding of α-synuclein aggregation by self-assemblies

• Kumar Sourav | Postdoctoral Researcher, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Advisor: Prof. Daniel Segal