Prof. Tzipi Strauss

Prof. Strauss is Head of the Department of Neonatology at the Sheba Medical Center and Professor at the School of Medicine. She obtained her M.D. from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion Institute of Technology and an MPH from the School of Public Health at Harvard. She performed her residency in Pediatrics at the Sheba Medical Center. During her residency she performed research at the Leiden University Medical Center in Holland. Formerly she served as Deputy Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital. She has recently established the first academic and clinical research center for Longevity in Israel.

Prof. Strauss’ main research topics are hemostasis and prematurity. She has studied how breast milk feeding (BMF) practices among very preterm infants influence their growth, as well as the recent consequences of vaccination during pregnancy on maternal-neonatal transfer of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Her focus is that the children of today are the adults of tomorrow, so that the quality and care will affect us throughout adulthood and the aging process. She has published more than 50 original articles in international journals.

The Longevity Academic Center at the Sheba Medical Center aims to enhance knowledge and interventions in aging and longevity to identify opportunities for improving the quality of life and function in older age. The Center focuses on studying life from younger adulthood to the centenarian’s age group (45-100 years old), including cutting-edge diagnostic, analysis and monitoring of health biomarkers and biological age, while studying multidisciplinary interventions.