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Principal Investigator

Dept. of Systems Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science

Herzl Street 1
76100 Rehovot
Israel

Ido Amit

Academic Education

1998-2002 Biology and Biochemistry at Bar-Ilan University

Scientific Degrees

2007 PhD: Systems and molecular Biology, Weizmann Institute

Professional Experience

Since 2021 Director, Weizmann Institute Center for Immunotherapy Research
Since 2020 Full Professor Dept. of Systems Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2016-2019 Associate Professor Dept. of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2011-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2007-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow: Genomics of the Immune system Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Others (Editorial work, member of scientific councils, advisory boards, awards)

~ Reviewer (Journals, ad hoc): Nature, Science, Nat. Immunol. Cell, PNAS
Since 2020 Scientific Advisory Board Cell
2022 Recipient of a Advanced Scientist Award by the European Research Council
2021 Recipient of the Landau Prize
2020 Recipient of the Bruno award
2020 Recipient of Cancer Research Institute Technology Impact Award
2019 Recipient of the Sanofi Institute Pasture award
2018 Recipient of a Consolidator Scientist Award by the European Research Council
2017 HHMI international research scholar
2016 Helen and Martin Kimmel award for innovative investigation
2016 Rappaport Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research
2015 EMBO Gold Medal award
2015 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Biology from the Weizmann Institute's Scientific Council
2015 Ernest and Bonnie Beutler Research Program of Excellence in Genomic Medicine
2015 Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
2013 EMBO Young Investigator Award
2012 ERC Research grant Award
2012 The Yigal Alon Scholarship ("Milgat Alon")
2011 Human Frontiers Science Program: Career Development Award
2009 Claire and Emanuel G. Rosenblatt Fellowship Award
2008 Post-doctoral Long-term fellowship of the Human Frontiers Science Program
2008 Post-doctoral Fellowship Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Fellowship
2008 Scholarship for the 47th International Academy of achievements summit
2007 J. F. Kennedy award for Ph.D research
2007 Scholarship for the Lindau Nobel laureates 57th Annual Meeting