Yotam Bar-On
Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor

Email- ybaron@technion.ac.il

 

 

 

 

Orly Kladnitsky, PhD
Lab Manager, Ph.D. Laboratory of Developmental Nephrology, faculty of medicine, Technion.  Before joining the Bar On lab, Orly worked as a scientific researcher at the Cancer metabolism lab at the Technion. Her project focused on metabolic targets of compounds that specifically kill SDH-deficient cells, collaborating with Metabomed. Her current goal is to uncover the immunological role of the viral protein RSV-G.

Email- orlyk@technion.ac.il

 

Dina Khateeb, Posdoctoral Fellow
MSc in Microbiology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. BSc in Medical Laboratory Science, Hadassah College, Jerusalem. In her master’s degree, Dina focused on drug discovery for Trypanosoma parasite infection treatment. Dina joined our team in April 2020, right after the lab was opened, and has been studying immune evasion mechanisms of RNA respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus. Her work is fully focused on immune checkpoints inhibitors aiming to enhance the antiviral T-cell responses for a better control of viral infections. Dina is a recipient of VATAT scholarship for outstanding PhD students from the Arab society. In her spare time, Dina enjoys coffee, Romila’s Indian food, and aerobic kickboxing to blow off steam.

 Email- dinakh@campus.technion.ac.il

 

Sapir Cordela – PhD Candidate
B.Sc Biotechnology Engineering – Ort Braude College. Sapir project focuses on adaptation of RSV to monoclonal antibody therapy aiming to provide novel insights into RSV immune evasion mechanisms

 

Email- sapir.c@technion.ac.il

 

 

Raghad, PhD Candidate

Raghad got her B.Med.Sc degree in Tel Aviv University. Even though she was studying to become a dentist, she fell in love with immunology and decided to pursue a career in research instead. Today, she works on the oncolytic reovirus, to investigate how the immune response is altered after tumor cells get infected with reovirus, hoping that this will enhance reovirus-based treatments for cancer  patients in the future. Email- khaleafi@campus.technion.ac.il                                                  

 

Jhonatan Harari , PhD candidate
MD degree from the Technion Institute of Technology , graduated in 2018, Pediatrician in training and a future PhD candidate of the lab. Planned areas of research – Escape mechanisms of viruses (specifically  RSV) from the human immune system.   
Email– syonyha@technion.ac.il

   

                                

 

Ghaydaa Sirhan, PhD candidate

Ghaydaa started her journey at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem where she got her B.Sc in biomedical sciences, she decided that our lab is the perfect place  to continue her conquest for scientific truth, in Ghaydaa’s vision, every immune response is like an epic warfare, where our body is a fortress with an elite army of cells defending it from foreign invaders, and bringing back to life what has been damaged, using a varied arsenal of weapons and tactics, in her research she aims to unlock our immune system’s mysterious strategies involved in the tissue damage repair, and hopefully come up with new ideas to fortify this amazing fortress
Email– Ghaydaas@campus.technion.ac.il

 

Alumni:

  • Romila Moirangthem (Currently a postdoc in University of Oxford)
  • Tslil Gabrieli
  • Shani Drucker
  • Yara Diab