Benjamin Dekel

Prof. Benjamin Dekel, MD is a senior physician at the Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology Division and founder and head of the Pediatric Stem Cell Research Institute at the Edmond and Lili Safra Children’s Hospital at Sheba. He is a world leader in adult and embryonic kidney stem cell manipulation, with which he seeks to cure renal disease and combat kidney organ shortage.
Prof. Dekel received his MD degree from the Technion (with honors), completed training in pediatrics at Sheba and Pediatric Nephrology at Schneider Medical Center, and completed both his Ph.D. studies (with honors) and post-doctoral training at the Weizmann Institute Department of Immunology with Prof. Yair Reisner. He holds the position of Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Prof. Dekel’s work focuses on both basic and translational aspects of kidney development.