Jacob Hanna
Dr.HannaearnedaB.Sc.inMedicalSciences(2001,summacumlaude),andaPhD/MDinclinicalmedicine(2007,summacumlaude),allfromtheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem,Israel.Formorethanfouryears,heconductedpostdoctoralresearchwithProf.RudolfJaenischattheWhiteheadInstituteforBiomedical.InhisrecentlyestablishedlabattheWeizmannInstitute,Dr.Hannacombinesdiverseexperimentationmethodswithcomputationalbiologytoexploretopicsinembryonicstemcellbiology,earlyembryonicdevelopmentandthemodelingofhumandiseases.ProjectsincludedecipheringthemechanismsbywhichIPScellsareproduced,characterizinguniquetypesofhumanpluripotentstemcellsandvariousstagesinearlyhumandevelopment.Inadditiontohelpingelucidatethemolecularbasisofcellreprogramming,thisresearchoffersthepromiseofcreatingpowerfulresearchmodelsfordegenerativeandautoimmunediseasessuchastype1diabetes.