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. David Wiener, University of Washington
- Dr. Nir Cohen, Charite University
- Dr. Pablo Szekely, Duke University
- Dr. Daphna Rothschild, Stanford University
- Dr. Yael Heyman, University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Naama Elefant, Columbia University Medical Center
- Dr. Samah Diab, University of Cambridge
- Dr. Ariella Weinberg-Shukron, University of Cambridge
- Dr. Maya Voichek, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA)
- Dr. Rachelly Normand, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute
- Dr. Hassan Massalha, Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge
- Dr. Lia Heinemann Yerushalmi, ISTA (Institute of Science and Technology)
- Dr. Ohad Lewin-Epstein, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Dr. Michal Polonsky, California Institute of Technology
- Dr. Daria Riabov, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
- Dr. Ido Caspy, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
- Dr. Binyamin Zuckerman, University of Miami
- Dr. Meytal Radzinski, University of California, San Francisco
- Dr. Or-Yam Revach, MGH Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School/Broad Institute
- Dr. Shira Sagie, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Dr. Maayan Pour, NYU School of Medicine
- Dr. Eman Khatib-Massalha, University of Cambridge/ Hematology Department/Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
- Dr. Sofia Graham, University of British Columbia
- Dr. Efi (Efraim) Weitman, HMS
- Dr. Naama Reicher, Duke University
- Dr. Ido Maor, NIH
- Dr. Neta Gazit Shimoni, UC Berkeley
- Dr. Lilach Gorodetski Asor, UCSD
- Dr. Abd El Raheem Nashef, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
- Dr. Omer Barkai, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
- Dr. Jonathan Gropp, University of California Berkeley
Ms. Shai Zilberzwige – Tal, Tel Aviv University - Dr. Eden Yifrach, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
- Mr. David Pellow, University of Toronto
- Dr. Adi Millman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dr. Yaara Finkel, Stanford University
- Dr. Sheri Harari, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
- Dr. Ofri Bar, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Dr. Shiri Graff Van Creveld, University of Washington
- Dr. Or Ben-Zvi, University of California San Diego
- Dr. Jenia Binenbaum, University of Cambridge
- Dr. Nerya Zexer, Penn State University
- Dr. Natanella Illouz-Eliaz, Salk Institute
- Dr. Amir Bahat, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
- Dr. Roi Isaac, University of California, San Diego
- Dr. Tom Levy, Stanford University
- Dr. Panagiota Kolitsida, University of California Los Angeles-UCLA
- Dr. Tal Gordon, Padova University and Stanford University
- Dr. Neta Felsenthal, Institut Curie
- Dr. Elad Bassat, IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
- Ms. Michal Chappleboim, Harvard Medical School
- Dr. Yonatan Chemla, MIT
- Dr. Elad Arad, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
- Dr. Idit Goldfracht, Columbia University
- Dr. Eliz Amar Lewis, Harvard Medical School
- Dr. Alon Chappleboim, Harvard
- Dr. Zoe Piran, Genentech & Stanford University