Prof.Ehud Gazit

Ehud Gazit is a Professor and Endowed Chair and a member of the Executive Council of Tel Aviv University (elected by the University Senate in 2017). He is also a member of Israel National Council for Research and Development (NCRD). Gazit is also the academic director of the BLAVATNIK CENTER for Drug Development and Head of the Laura Schwartz-Kipp Institute for Biotechnology. In 2015, he was knighted by the Italian Republic for his service to science and society.

From 2012-2014 he served as the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology and the coordinator of the forum of Chief Scientists of the Israeli ministries. From 2008-2012 Gazit served as Tel Aviv University Vice President for Research and Development and the Chairman of the board of directors of Ramot Ltd., the technology transfer company of Tel Aviv University.

Gazit received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude) after completing his studies at the Special Program for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University (Currently the Adi Lautman Program), and his Ph.D. as a Clore Fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science. For his Ph.D. work, he received the John F. Kennedy Award. He has been a faculty member at Tel Aviv University since 2000, after completing his postdoctoral at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he also had held a visiting appointment (2002–2011). He also had visiting appointments at Cambridge University, Fudan University, and Umeå University.

Gazit had published more than 300 peer-reviewed publications in top journals including Science, Cell, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, and Nature Chemical Biology. He is also one of the most prolific inventors in Israeli academia with more 120 international patents including 43 issued US patents.

Gazit served and serves in various positions related to science and technology at the national and international level. He delivered more than 250 invited presentations including opening lectures, keynote presentations and named lectures such as the Thomas McMahon Lectureship, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University and EMBO Keynote Lecture at BioMAT 2017. Gazit had received numerous awards and honors including Hesterin Award, Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research, and Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the Field of Biomedical Research. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Sciences.