Personal Data
Nationality
Israeli / American
Year of Birth
1971
Studies
M.Sc. (direct, Summa cum laude) Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1992-1997
Ph.D., Computational Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1998-2002
Professional Career
2003-2006
Bauer Fellow, Center for Genomics Research, Harvard University
2006-2011
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, MIT
2006-2020
Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (on leave)
2009-2014
Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2011-2015
Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Biology, MIT
2012-2020
Founding Director, Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute
2013-2020
Director, Cell Circuits Program, Broad Institute
2014-2020
Chair of the Faculty and Member of the Executive Leadership Team, Broad Institute
2015-2022
Professor, Department of Biology, MIT
2014-2020
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Since 2020
Head of Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED)
Prizes and Honors (selected)
2006
Career Award at the Scientific Interface, Burroughs-Wellcome Fund
2008
Tomorrow’s PIs, Genome Technology Magazine
2008
Overton Prize, International Society for Computational Biology
2008
PIONEER Award, NIH Director
2008
Sloan Fellow, Sloan Foundation
2009
Finalist, Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Promise, Vilcek Foundation
2014
Earl and Thressa Stadtman Scholar Award, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Biology (ASBMB)
2017
Paul Marks Prize, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2017
Innovator Award, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
2018
McCormick Lecture, Stanford Unviersity
2018
Harvey Lecture, Harvey Society, New York
2018
Whetherall Lecture, Oxford, UK
2019
FASEB Excellence in Science Mid-Career Investigator Award
2019
National Academy of Sciences USA, Elected Member
2020
Mendel Lecture, European Society of Human Genetics
2020
Jonathan Kraft Prize, Massachusetts General Hospital
2020
Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences
2020
Keio Medical Science Prize
2020
National Academy of Medicine, USA
2021
Vanderbilt Prize
2021
James Prize in Science and Technology Integration, National Academy of Sciences
2021
Ernst Schering Prize
2021
AACR Academy Fellow
2021
ETH Zurich doctorate (Honorary)
2022
Nakasone Award
2022
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Corporate Advisory Boards
2013-2020
Scientific Advisory Board, Syros Pharmaceuticals
2014-2020
Scientific Advisory Board, ThermoFisher Scientific
2018-2020
Observer, Board of Directors, Celsius Therapeutics
2019-2020
Scientific Advisory Board, Asimov
2019-2020
Scientific Advisory Board, Neogene Therapeutics
Academic Advisory Boards
2013-2016
Scientific Advisory Board, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley
2013-2019
Scientific Advisory Board, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
2014-present
Scientific Advisory Board, SciLife Lab (Karolinska and Uppsala), Sweden
2017-2020
Advisory Council, National Human Genome Research Institute
2017-2019
Biology Task Force, Defense Science Board
2017-2022
Scientific Advisory Board, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
2019-present
Scientific Advisory Board, Flatiron Institute
2019-present
Institutional Advisory Board, VIB Life Sciences Research Institute (VIB)
2019-present
Board of Scientific Councilors, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2021-present
Scientific Advisory Board of Berlin Institute of Health at Charité
2021-present
Bavarian AI Council
2022-present
Gladstone Institute, Scientific Advisory Board
Journal Editorial Boards (selected)
2012-2014
Member, Board of Reviewing Editors, eLife
2013-present
Editorial Board Member, Nature/EMBO Molecular Systems Biology
2014-2018
Senior Editor, eLife
2016-present
Member, Editorial Board, Cell
2020-present
Member, Editorial Board, Cell Genomics
2020-present
Member, Advisory Board, Cancer Cell