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Ido Amit

Ido Amit MSc, PhD

Immunology and Microbiology
Rehovot, Ha Merkaz, Israel

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Prof. Ido Amit earned his BSc (2000) and MSc (2002) in life sciences from Bar-Ilan University. He earned a Ph.D. in biological regulation at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2007. For four years, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining the Weizmann Institute in 2011. He is the incumbent of the Alan and Laraine Fischer Career Development Chair.

Prof. Amit aims at elucidating how humans encode complex regulatory functions in their genomes with a focus on hematopoiesis – the formation of blood cells - and immune responses. Using concepts from functional genomics, molecular biology, computer science, physics, and biotechnology, he studies fundamental principles of genome function and regulation and how they affect blood development and immune homeostasis in both health and disease—which, he hopes, will bridge the gap between our understanding of an individual’s personal genome and the physiological consequences in health and disease.
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