Prof. Angel Porgador Profile

Prof. Angel Porgador

Professor

Department :	Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics School of Pharmacy Center for Emerging Diseases, Tropical Diseases and AIDS (CEMTA)
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Phone :	972-8-6477282 972-8-6477672 972-74-7728849 972-8-6477409 972-8-6477283
Email :	angel@bgu.ac.il
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Innate Immunity

Education

B.M.Sc. 1980-1982, Hebrew University, Faculty of Medicine.
B.Sc. 1982-1984, Hebrew university, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Computer Sciences.
M.Sc. 1987-1988, Weizmann Institute of Science, Dept. of Life Sciences. Advisors: Profs. Lea Eisenbach and Michael Feldman. Title: Expression of H-2K gene is correlated with decreased tumorigenicity and metastogenesis in B-16 melanoma cells. Ph.D. 1989-1993, Weizmann Institute of Science, Dept. of Life Sciences, Advisors: Profs. Lea Eisenbach and Michael Feldman, Title: Manipulating malignancy through gene transfer of cytokine genes and MHC class I genes.

Research Topics

Natural killer receptors and their ligands: Application for cancer, viral diseases and diabetes
Patterns of disease (cancer, cardio-vascular, neuro-degenerative) bio-markers in blood.

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