The ILANIT 2026 Postdoctoral Award Winners were selected in recognition of their outstanding scientific achievements and their strong potential for future academic leadership in Israel. One of the conference’s primary goals is to provide advanced-stage postdoctoral researchers with meaningful opportunities to engage with the Israeli academic community and the recruiting bodies for academic institutions. Through dedicated platforms and events, ILANIT enables award recipients to interact with leading Israeli scientists, present their research accomplishments, and further prepare for future academic career opportunities in Israel.
ILANIT 2026 Postdoctoral Award Winners
- Dr. Eliz Amar Lewis, Harvard Medical School
- Dr. Elad Arad, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
- Dr. Lilach Gorodetski Asor, UCSD
- Dr. Ofri Bar, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Dr. Omer Barkai, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
- Dr. Elad Bassat, IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
- Dr. Amir Bahat, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
- Dr. Or Ben-Zvi, University of California San Diego
- Dr. Jenia Binenbaum, University of Cambridge
- Dr. Michal Chappleboim, Harvard Medical School
- Dr. Alon Chappleboim, Harvard
- Dr. Yonatan Chemla, MIT
- Dr. Ido Caspy, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
- Dr. Nir Cohen, Charite University
- Dr. Tal Dahan Meir, Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of Molecular Plant Biology
- Dr. Naama Elefant, Columbia University Medical Center
- Dr. Neta Felsenthal, Institut Curie
- Dr. Yaara Finkel, Stanford University
- Dr. Neta Gazit Shimoni, UC Berkeley
- Dr. Idit Goldfracht, Columbia University
- Dr. Tal Gordon, Padova University and Stanford University
- Dr. Sofia Graham, University of British Columbia
- Dr. Jonathan Gropp, University of California Berkeley
- Dr. Sheri Harari, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
- Dr. Lia Heinemann Yerushalmi, ISTA (Institute of Science and Technology)
- Dr. Yael Heyman, University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Natanella Illouz-Eliaz, Salk Institute
- Dr. Roi Isaac, University of California, San Diego
- Dr. Panagiota Kolitsida, University of California Los Angeles-UCLA
- Dr. Eman Khatib-Massalha, University of Cambridge/ Hematology Department/Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
- Dr. Tom Levy, Stanford University
- Dr. Ohad Lewin-Epstein, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Dr. Ido Maor, NIH
- Dr. Hassan Massalha, Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge
- Dr. Adi Millman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dr. Abd El Raheem Nashef, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
- Dr. Rachelly Normand, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute
- Dr. David Pellow, University of Toronto
- Dr. Lior Peri, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, University of Cambridge
- Dr. Michal Polonsky, California Institute of Technology
- Dr. Zoe Piran, Genentech & Stanford University
- Dr. Maayan Pour, NYU School of Medicine
- Dr. Meytal Radzinski, University of California, San Francisco
- Dr. Naama Reicher, Duke University
- Dr. Or-Yam Revach, MGH Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School/Broad Institute
- Dr. Daria Riabov, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
- Dr. Daphna Rothschild, Stanford University
- Dr. Esther Shmidov, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
- Dr. Pablo Szekely, Duke University
- Dr. Ariella Weinberg-Shukron, University of Cambridge
- Dr. Efi (Efraim) Weitman, HMS
- Dr. David Wiener, University of Washington
- Dr. Maya Voichek, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA)
- Dr. Eden Yifrach, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
- Dr. Nerya Zexer, Penn State University
- Dr. Shai Zilberzwige – Tal, Tel Aviv University
- Dr. Binyamin Zuckerman, University of Miami
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