Personal Details:

D.O.B: 18.10.75
P.O.B: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Married to Sol
Father to Yoni, Tami and Mai
Citizenship: Israel, Argentina

LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-israelson-4290b69/

Ben-Gurion University: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/default.aspx

Department of Physiology and Cell Biology: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/fohs/physiology/Pages/default.aspx

Employment History:

2018-present:  Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

2012-2018: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Education:

2007-2012 Postdoc (Neuroscience). The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The University of California San Diego. La Jolla, CA, USA.

2001-2007 Ph.D. Summa cum laude, Biochemistry. Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

1998-2001  B.Sc. Biology (Major-Biochemistry). Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Awards:

2016 The Toronto Prize for Excellence in Research
2012 The Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience
2011-2014 Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Development Grant
2007-2009 The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) long term fellowship
2007-2009 The Israeli ALS association (IsrALS) postdoctoral fellowship
2007 Ph.D. with excellence “summa cum laude”
2006 The Dean’s prize for outstanding Ph.D. students, BGU
2005-2006 Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ph.D. student excellence fellowship
2006 Katzir fellowship for travel, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2005 Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience student excellence fellowship for travel
2004 The Doris and Bertie Black Ph.D. student excellence award
2002-2003 Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ph.D. student excellence fellowship

Funding:

2024-2029 Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
2023-2028 National Institute of Health (NIH)
2019-2024 Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
2019-2021 Fight MND (Australia)
2019-2022 German-Israeli Foundation (GIF)
2018-2021  Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF)
2015-2017 National Institute of Psychobiology in Israel
2015-2018 EuroNanoMed
2014-2019  Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
2014-2016  Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF)
2014-2015  German-Israeli Foundation (GIF)
2013-2014  IsrALS
2013-2017  FP7 Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG)
2011-2014   Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)