Shai Rahimipour, Ph.D., obtained his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in the field of Organic Chemistry and Neurobiology. He then spent three years at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, working with Professor Reza Ghadiri as a Human Frontier and Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2006, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Chemistry. The major thrust of Rahimipour’s team is to better understand and treat disorders that are linked to aberrant protein folding and assembly. The strategy employed by the team is interdisciplinary, aiming at utilizing self-assembly processes to design new modalities for targeting and arresting early oligomer and amyloid formation in different diseases and diagnosing the diseases in the very early stages of their pathogenesis by detecting oligomers. His team has published over 55 publications (h-index 26) in highly reputable journals and three patents.

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