The IMRIC Center for Addiction Research (ICARe)

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Welcome to ICARe - The IMRIC Center for Addiction Research

The IMRIC Center for Addiction Research (ICARe) aims to advance the research and understanding of substance use disorders at multiple levels – biological, psychological, medical – and raise the awareness to drug-related challenges in the general Israeli society.

About ICARe

ICARe was founded in 2022 with the vision of bringing together an interdisciplinary team of world-class researchers and clinicians to generate breakthroughs in addiction research, treatment, public policy and education.

Our objectives

ICARe was established with the objective of forming a multidisciplinary center that will become a world leader in the research of substance use disorders.

Research goals

Drug addiction is a relapsing disease in which memories associated with pleasure are formed by repeated consumption of drugs and subsequent withdrawal. These “abnormal” memories are the main force driving recovered addicts to relapse repeatedly despite the genuine will of the addict to avoid drugs.

ICARe Members

Get to know ICARe outstanding members

Yoni Kupchik

Head

Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Rami Yaka

Co-head

Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmachy, Faculty of Medicine

Rami Aqeilan

Steering committee

Department of Immunology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Danny Ben-Zvi

Steering committee

Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Ayal Ben-Zvi

Member

Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Dani Rokni

Member

Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Alex Binshtok

Member

Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

David Lichtstein

Member

Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Josh Goldberg

Member

Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Mor Nahum

Member

School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Eyal Kalanthroff

Member

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences

Abed Mansour

Member

Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Shai Sabbah

Member

Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Yoram Ben-Shaul

Member

Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Shahar Arzy

Member

Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Yafit Gilboa

Member

School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Lena Lipskaya-Velikovsky

Member

School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Ami Citri

Member

Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences

Yehuda Neumark

Member

School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Yael Bar-Zeev

Member

School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Amit Lotan

Member

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine

Rachel Katz-Brull

Member

Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine

Yael Stern-Bach

Member

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

Katy Margulis

Member

The Faculty of Medicine-School of Pharmacy - Institute for Drug Research

“ICARe aims to advance knowledge on drug addiction and its treatment"

It does so by supporting research projects of ICARe members
and by providing facilities to enable state-of-the-art addiction research

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