Award-Winning Scholars
Our scholars are decorated with many awards. Here is a partial list:
Dan Peer is the director of the Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine at Tel Aviv University. He is also the Vice President for Research and Development at Tel Aviv University.
His lab works in the interface of basic and translational science.
In addition, Prof. Peer is the Founder and Managing Director of the SPARK Tel Aviv, Center for Translational Medicine. Moreover, Prof. Peer is o the Scientific Advisory Board of numerous international companies.
In 2014 he was elected to the Israel Young Academy.
In 2023 he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.
Prof. Peer’s team developed the first bacterial mRNA Vaccine for Plague with 100% protection even in the first dose (Kon E. et al. Science Adv. 2023). His lab was the first to show systemic, cell-specific delivery of mRNA into immune cells (Veiga N. et al. Nature Communications 2018); be the first to show systemic, cell-specific, high-efficiency therapeutic genome editing in cancer (Rosenblum D. et al. Science Adv. 2020; Gutkin A. et al. Nature Biotech 2021; Elia U. et al. Nature Biotech 2023).
Moreover, they recently identified CKAP5 as a new potential therapeutic target in vivo for genetically unstable cancer cells (Chatterjee S. et al. Science Adv. 2023; Tarab D. et al. Adv. Science 2023).
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