Prof. Yehuda G. Assaraf Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Yehuda Gerard Assaraf obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. In 1986, he joined the prestigious lab of the renowned world leader Prof. Robert T. Schimke at Stanford University, USA, for Post-doctoral studies in molecular mechanisms of anticancer drug resistance. In 1990,... read morehe joined the Faculty of Biology at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, and rose to the rank of Full Professor. He is the Sylvia and Alexander Hassan Academic Chair and head of the Fred Wyszkowski Cancer Research Laboratory at the Technion. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Biology at the Technion during 2012-2018.

His research focuses on deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer multidrug resistance and the development of precision medicine modalities to surmount chemoresistance. He authored 250 papers in leading journals and has been declared by Clarivate as a Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) in the three successive years of 2021, 2022 and 2023 in Pharmacology. Prof. Assaraf has a current H-index of 83 and has over 2500 citations a year. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of Drug Resistance Updates, a most prestigious journal of Elsevier, with a previous impact factor of 24.3.