Yehudit Bergman#
| Membership Number: | 3110 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor at the Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem, the Morley Goldblatt Chair for Cancer Research
- 2000 - 2005 Chairperson, Developmental Biology Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, Israel
- 2000 - 2005 Chairperson, Department of Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, Israel
- Since 1984 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Full Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, Israel
Fields of Scholarship
- Cancer
- Monoallelic expression
- Stem cells and cell fate decisions
- Developmental biology
- Immunology
- The role of histone and DNA methylation in stem cells and cancer
- Epigenetic Mechanisms Controlling Immunoglobulin Allelic Exclusion
- Molecular biology
- Epigenetics
- Regulation of immune cell development
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Helmholtz International Fellow Award
- 2012 Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2010 Ruggero Ceppellini Advanced School of Immunology, the Distinguished Visitor Lecture
- 2009 Emanuel Rubin Chair in Medical Science
- 2008 Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2007 Abisch-Frankel Foundation for the Promotion of Life Sciences Prize
- Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2007 Israel Cancer Research Fund Professorship
- 2004 Member European Molecular Biology (EMBO) Organization
- 2002 Hebrew University Rector Award for the Excellent Teacher and the Outstanding Investigator
- 1997 Morley Goldblatt Chair of Cancer Research
