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
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