Pfizer-Wexler Excellence Scholarships Awardees

The Faculty of Medicine is pleased and honored to announce the winners of the Excellence Scholarship for Outstanding Research Students

08 March 2023
Pfizer-Wexler Excellence Scholarships Awardees

The Faculty of Medicine is pleased and honored to announce the winners of the Excellence Scholarship for Outstanding Research Students, made available through a generous donation provided by Pfizer-Wexler Foundation for Development and Progress.

 

This highly competitive scholarship is awarded to exceptional students undertaking research in fields related to mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of human disease.

 

The following students have been awarded a scholarship for second semester of the academic year, 2022-2023:

 

Fatima Amer-Sarsour, PhD student, Dr. Avraham Ashkenazi

Revealing regulatory mechanisms of ubiquitin conjugation by normal and disease-causing polyalanine stretches

School of Medicine

 

Lior Ankol Redlich, PhD student, Prof. Eran Perlson

Characterization of miR-126 5p role in ALS pathology

School of Medicine

 

Avi Baraz, PhD student, Dr. Uri Obolski

Estimating the collateral damage of cefuroxime and ceftriaxone by using electronic medical records

School of Public Health

 

Shaina Ben, MSc student, Prof. Rina Rosin-Arbesfeld

Characterizing Wnt Signaling in CD4+ and CD8+ Lymphocytes

School of Medicine

 

Omer Bender, PhD student, Dr. Daniel Bar

Profiling immunologic response to pathogens in populations: elderly population with or without Alzheimer’s Disease

School of Dental Medicine

 

Tal Caller, MD-PhD student, Prof. Jonathan Leor

The role of cardiac extracellular vesicles in tumor growth

Sheba Medical Center, Cardiology

 

Roma Parikh, PhD student, Prof. Carmit Levy

Cell-to-cell recycled delivery of melanosomes and their effect on macrophages

School of Medicine

 

Guy Shapira, PhD student, Prof. Noam Shomron

The evolutionary dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 within and between hosts

School of Medicine

 

Yael Zait, PhD student, Prof. Neta Erez

The role of the microenvironment in facilitating breast cancer brain metastasis

 School of Medicine

 

Johanna Zerbib, PhD student, Dr. Uri Ben-David

Identifying vulnerabilities of aneuploid (cancer) cells

School of Medicine

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