Orly Reiner#
| Membership Number: | 6643 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http:// |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7560-9599 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- 2002 - 2010 Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- 1993 - 2002 Senior Scientist, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- 1990 - 1993 Postdoctoral fellow, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (USA)
Fields of Scholarship
- Brain development
- Brain malformation
- Neuronal progenitors
- Disease modeling
- Live imaging
- Neuronal migration
- Stem cells
- Brain organoids
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Feinberg Graduate School Prize in honor of Gad Reshef
- 1990 Honor Award to Ph.D. students by the Israeli Knesset
- 1990 Fullbright Award
- 1990 - 1992 Human Science Frontiers Organization Long Term Fellowship
- 1993 - Fogarty Fellowship
- 1994 - 2003 Incumbent of Aser Rothstein Career Development Chair in Genetic Diseases
- 1994 - 1996 Recipient of Basil O’Connor Scholar Starter Award from the March of Dimes
- 2004 - present Incumbent of the Berstein-Mason Professorial Chair of Neurochemistry
- 2019 - present Head of M. Judith Ruth Institute for Preclinical Brain Research
