Award-Winning Scholars
Our scholars are decorated with many awards. Here is a partial list:
The Gazit lab is concerned with the process of molecular self-assembly of proteins, peptides, and many other biomolecules into nanostructures.
This work is relevant to basic physiological processes as well as various disease states, such as: degenerative disorders, inborn errors disorders as well as malignancy processes in which tumor suppressor proteins are forming aggregative structures.
The basic mechanistic understanding of these processes discovered by the Gazit group will enable to design small compounds that halt the assembly process, thereby serving as novel drugs for neurodegenerative disease and cancer. Its most advanced compound is already in clinical trials for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
2015 | Knighthood, Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (OSSI), Italian Republic
2015 | Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research
2015 | Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
2016 | Thomas McMahon Lecture, Harvard University
2016 | ERC Advanced Grant, European Research Council
2018 | Foreign Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc)
2019 | Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the Field of Biomedical Research
