General Information
NameProf. Roni Apte
DepartmentShraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Emailrapte@bgu.ac.il
Academic RankProfessor
FunctionVice Dean, Basic Sciences


Functions

 

Vice Dean, Basic Sciences Professions

Head, Division of Basic Sciences

 

   

Education

 1970-1973 B.Sc. Magna Cum Laude, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan,Israel, Dept. of Life Sciences, Microbiology. 1973-1978 Ph.D. student, Bar-Ilan University, Dept. of Life Sciences, Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Pluznik. Thesis: "Regulation of Granulopoiesis and macrophage formation by bacterial lipopolysaccharides".
   

Research Interests

 Tumor immunobiology, tumor immunotherapy, cytokine biology, IL-1 biology in steady state homeostasis and in disease (focus is on inflammatory diseases and cancer), the intracrine role of IL-1??in fibroblasts