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ICARe Members

Meet the group of interdisciplinary scientists who comprise ICARe faculty.

Yoni Kupchik

Head
Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Kupchik lab studies the physiological changes occuring in the brain’s reward system after withdrawal from repeated exposure to drugs of abuse

Rami Yaka

Co-head
Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmachy, Faculty of Medicine

The Yaka lab studies the molecular events induced by exposure to and withdrawal from drugs of abuse

Rami Aqeilan

Steering committee
Department of Immunology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Aqeilan lab investigates the role of genomic instabilities in various diseases

Danny Ben-Zvi

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

The Ben Zvi lab studies the physiology behind obesity and the effects of weight-loss surgeries on various aspects of health, including mental health

Ayal Ben-Zvi

Member

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

The Ben Zvi lab investigates the role of the blood-brain barrier and how it can be potentially manipulated to help treat brain-related diseases

Dani Rokni

Member
Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Rokni lab investigates the processing of olfactory information and how it guides behavior

Alex Binshtok

Member
Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Binshtok lab explores the processing of pain in the brain and various approaches to diminish pain sensation, including opiates

David Lichtstein

Member
Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Lichtstein lab studies the importance of cardiac steroids and their interaction with the sodium-potassium pump in various aspects of health

Josh Goldberg

Member
Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Goldberg lab studies how the vulnerability of certain neurons contributes to their degenerations and to the development of neurodegenerative diseases

Mor Nahum

Member
School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

The Nahum lab studies cognitive control of behavior and the use of mobile tracking tools to assess various measures of behavior in healthy and clinical populations

Eyal Kalanthroff

Member
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences

The Kalanthroff lab investigates ways to translate clinical neuroscience research into better treatment for individuals suffering from various psychopathologies

Abed Mansour

Member
Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Mansour lab uses molecular techniques in neuronal stem cells to study a variety of brain diseases

Shai Sabbah

Member
Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Sabbah lab studies how visual information influences behavior and mood

Yoram Ben-Shaul

Member
Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Ben-Shaul lab studies the neural processing of social signals of other organisms, including pheromones

Shahar Arzy

Member
Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine

The Arzy lab explores the human experiencing-self and its relations to the surrounding environment with neuro-computational tools

Yafit Gilboa

Member
School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

The Gilboa lab explores the use of advanced technological tools to improve remote rehabilitation of patients

Lena Lipskaya-Velikovsky

Member
School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

The Lipskaya-Velikovsky lab explores ways to enable full occupational participation and community integration of people with mental health conditions

Ami Citri

Member
Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences

The Citri lab studies hiow the brain encodes experiences that form the basis of habits, compulsions and drug addiction

Yehuda Neumark

Member
School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

The Neumark lab studies the epidemiology of drug and alcohol use and misuse and the use of digital tools as a source of health information

Yael Bar-Zeev

Member
School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

The Bar-Zeev lab investigates tobacco control and avenues of interventions to promote smoking cessation

Amit Lotan

Member
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine

The Lotan lab investigates the neural mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders

Rachel Katz-Brull

Member
Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine

The Katz-Brull lab develops new molecular agents to improve the use of MRI imaging in humans

Yael Stern-Bach

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

The Stern-Bach lab studies the biochemistry and physiology of glutamatergic receptors

Katy Margulis

Member

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

The Stern-Bach lab studies the biochemistry and physiology of glutamatergic receptors

ICARe Administrative Staff

Meet ICARe Administrative Staff.

Gil Amitai Gavra

Administrative Coordinator
Center for Addiction Research ICARe