Academic committee | Diabetes Research Center

Academic committee

Prof. Jacob Bar Tana

jacobb@ekmd.huji.ac.il

Faculty of Medicine

Metabolic Syndrome

Dr. Danny Ben-Zvi

dannyb@ekmd.huji.ac.il

Faculty of Medicine

lab website

The Ben-Zvi lab studies the effects of bariatric surgeries on metabolic diseases to find leads to new treatments and discover novel biology.

Prof. Benjamin Glaser

ben.glaser@mail.huji.ac.il

Hadassah Medical Center

My group focuses on the effect of glucose on beta cell proliferation and dysfunction and on mechanisms of islet cell maturation and dysmaturation in Type 2 Diabetes

Prof. Gil Leibowitz

gleib@hadassah.org.il

Hadassah Medical Center

Regulation of beta cell growth, development and function in physiology and diabetes.

Prof. Zecharia Madar

zecharia.madar@mail.huji.ac.il

Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment

Prof. Shlomo Sasson

shlomo.sasson@mail.huji.ac.il

Faculty of Medicine

lab website

Development of novel antihyperglycemic drugs. Lipid remodelling in pancreatic beta cells. Diabetes-related complications in vascular endothelial cells. Regulation of glucose transport