{"id":91,"date":"2013-04-20T19:04:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:35:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fohs.bgu.ac.il\/israelsonlab\/?page_id=91","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Personal Details:<a href=\"https:\/\/fohs.bgu.ac.il\/israelsonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ALS-run-2016-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-475 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/fohs.bgu.ac.il\/israelsonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ALS-run-2016-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"ALS run 2016 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fohs.bgu.ac.il\/israelsonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ALS-run-2016-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fohs.bgu.ac.il\/israelsonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ALS-run-2016-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">D.O.B: 18.10.75<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">P.O.B: Buenos Aires, Argentina<br \/>Status: Married to Sol<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Father to Yoni, Tami and Mai<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Citizenship: Israel, Argentina<\/span><\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/adrian-israelson-4290b69\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/adrian-israelson-4290b69\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gurion University: <a href=\"https:\/\/in.bgu.ac.il\/en\/pages\/default.aspx\">https:\/\/in.bgu.ac.il\/en\/pages\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Department of Physiology and Cell Biology: <a href=\"https:\/\/in.bgu.ac.il\/en\/fohs\/physiology\/Pages\/default.aspx\">https:\/\/in.bgu.ac.il\/en\/fohs\/physiology\/Pages\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Employment History:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2024-present:\u00a0 Full Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2018-2024:\u00a0 Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2012-2018: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2001-2007 Ph.D. <b><i>Summa cum laude, <\/i><\/b>Biochemistry. Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1998-2001\u00a0 B.Sc. Biology (Major-Biochemistry). Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Awards:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2016 The Toronto Prize for Excellence in Research<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2012 The Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2011-2014 Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Development Grant<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2007-2009 The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) long term fellowship<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2007-2009 The Israeli ALS association (IsrALS) postdoctoral fellowship<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2007 Ph.D. with excellence \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<i>summa cum laude\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/i><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2006 The Dean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prize for outstanding Ph.D. students, BGU<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2005-2006 Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ph.D. student excellence fellowship<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2006 Katzir fellowship for travel, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2005 Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience student excellence fellowship for travel<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2004 The Doris and Bertie Black Ph.D. student excellence award<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2002-2003 Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ph.D. student excellence fellowship<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Funding:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2024-2029 Israel Science Foundation (ISF)<br \/>2023-2028 National Institute of Health (NIH)<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2019-2024 Israel Science Foundation (ISF)<br \/>2019-2021 Fight MND (Australia)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2019-2022 German-Israeli Foundation (GIF)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2018-2021\u00a0 Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF)<b><br \/><\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2015-2017 National Institute of Psychobiology in Israel<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2015-2018 EuroNanoMed<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2014-2019\u00a0 Israel Science Foundation (ISF)<br \/>2014-2016\u00a0 Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF)<br \/>2014-2015\u00a0 German-Israeli Foundation (GIF)<br \/>2013-2014\u00a0 IsrALS<br \/>2013-2017\u00a0 FP7 Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG)<br \/>2011-2014\u00a0 \u00a0Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Details: D.O.B: 18.10.75P.O.B: Buenos Aires, ArgentinaStatus: Married to SolFather to Yoni, Tami and MaiCitizenship: 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: 2024-present:\u00a0 Full Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. 2018-2024:\u00a0 Associate Professor, Dept. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fohs.bgu.ac.il\/israelsonlab\/?page_id=91\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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