Iris Lavon
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel
Biography
Iris Lavon is the Head of the Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratory in the Departments of Neurology and Oncology at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. She completed her PhD in 1999. The main research interests of her lab are in the fi eld of molecular characteristics of brain tumors and personalized medicine for patients with brain tumors and neurodegenerative diseases. The results of her studies have been published in 28 scientifi c papers. Several of her fi ndings have been patented and were shown to have clinical applications in terms of potential implementation in the development of new therapeutic approaches