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Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
Our team of experts is dedicated to conducting cutting-edge research to develop medicine that will ultimately lead to better outcomes for individuals with autism and their families.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006
Prof. Roger D. Kornberg, PhD.
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Roger Kornberg is Winzer Professor in Medicine in the Department of Structural Biology at Stanford University.
In his doctoral research, he demonstrated the diffusional motions
of lipids in membranes, termed flip-flop and lateral diffusion.
He was a postdoctoral fellow and member of the scientific staff at the Laboratory of Molecular biology in Cambridge, England from 1972-5, where he discovered the nucleosome, the basic unit of DNA coiling in chromosomes. He moved to his present position in 1978, where his research has focused on the mechanism and regulation of eukaryotic gene transcription. Notable findings include the demonstration of the role of nucleosomes in transcriptional regulation, the establishment of a yeast RNA polymerase II transcription system and the isolation of all the proteins involved, the discovery of the Mediator of transcriptional
regulation, the development of two-dimensional protein crystallization and its application to transcription proteins, and the atomic structure determination of an RNA polymerase II
transcribing complex.
Kornberg was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993. He has received many awards, including the 2001 Welch prize, highest award in chemistry in the United States, the 2002 Leopold Mayer Prize, highest award in biomedical sciences of the French Academy of Sciences, and the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (unshared).
Kornberg’s closest collaborator has been his wife, Dr. Yahli Lorch. They have three children, Guy, Maya, and Gil.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
Prof. Dan Shechtman, PhD.
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Distinguished Professor Dan Shechtman of the Technion received his doctorate at the Technion - Israel Institute of technology in Haifa in 1972. Following 3 years of post-doc in the USA he came back to his Alma Mater and recently he has retired. He was awarded alone the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of Quasi-Periodic crystals.
Shechtman’s controversial discovery of Quasi-Periodic crystals and quasi-periodicity from 1982, fundamentally changed the way scientists look at solid matter, causing a paradigm shift in crystallography. Crystal structure of Quasi-Periodic crystals had, until then, been considered impossible by the scientific world. A structure is mathematically ordered but not periodic. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Shechtman the Nobel Prize for the creation of a new cross-disciplinary scientific branch, enriching chemistry, physics and mathematics.
Shechtman’s current research efforts center on the development of magnesium alloys for a variety of applications. Shechtman is also involved in educational projects. At the Technion he initiated and taught a class of technological entrepreneurship as of 1987. More than 10,000 engineers and scientists in Israel took this famous program, and 25% of them were involved in startups. He also founded a scientific program for 5-year-old children and in 2011 he started to promote scientific education in the world. Each year, he delivers almost 100 lectures about his discovery of Quasi-Periodic crystals, as well as about the importance of science for society, the significance of education and the importance of technological entrepreneurship for the wellbeing and peace in the world.
Dan Shechtman is a member of several Science Academies, including the Israel Academy of Science, the three American Academies of Science and he is also a foreign member of the Russian Academy of science – RUS. He is also an honorary member of various professional associations and honorary doctor of universities around the world. Besides the Nobel Prize, he has also been awarded other prestigious awards such as the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Gregori Aminoff Prize, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the EMRS Award (European Materials Research Society).This, in addition to many scientific award in Israel, including the Rothchild Prize, the Israel Prize, the EMET prize and more.
Dan Shechtman is married to Professor Zipora Shechtman of the HaifaUniversity. They have four children and twelve grandchildren.
Prof. Craig Erickson, MD.
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Craig Erickson, MD is the Research Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Affiliated, at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He has 20+ years experience in translational medicine efforts in neurodevelopmental disorders including spearheading a number of bench-to-bedside programs bringing new treatment development options to patients with autism and related disorders. His academic work includes efforts to improve synchrony in measurement across preclinical and clinical first in human treatment trials has been continuously federally funded for over a decade.
Prof. David Greenberg, MD.
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David Greenberg is the Director of Saban Children’s Hospital and the director of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit of the Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
He is a Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Prof. Greenberg is the founder and served as the medical office and consultant Beyond Air Inc. Beyond Cancer and ENOX Biopharma and holds several patents in the field of diagnostics and treatment of infectious diseases.
Prof. Greenberg has a relationship with several large pharmaceutical companies such as MSD, GSK, Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, Abbvie, Sanofi as well as the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) either as a recipient of research grants, a scientific consultant, and/or a participant in scientific boards.
He nominated as honorary professor of Transilvania University Brasov, Romania, honorary member of the Romanian microbiology society and as an honorary member of the Romanian Society of Pediatrics. Prof. Greenberg obtained his MD degree from Ben-Gurion University and was boarded in Pediatrics at Soroka University Medical Center. He completed a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C. Canada.
Prof. Greenberg is a member of the Israel National Vaccine and Infectious Disease Advisory Board for the Israel Ministry of Health. Prof. Greenberg served as chairman of the Israeli Pediatric Infectious Disease Society and as chairman of the Israel Clinical Pediatrics Society. Prof. Greenberg has contributed over 200 peer-reviewed articles and in addition, review articles and book chapters both in local and international scientific publications.