Group Member

Prof. Yossi Mandel, MD, PhD, MHA

Head of Lab

Email: yossi.mandel@biu.ac.il

2024- Full Professor

2018 - 2024 Associate Professor

2013 – 2018 Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University

2011 – 2013 Post Doctoral fellowship and research associate - Stanford University

2006 – 2011 Ph.D. Bioengineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1998 – 2004 Residency in Ophthalmology - Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Israel

2002 – 2003 M.H.A Ben Gurion University, Israel

1984 – 1992 M.D. Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Nairouz Farah, PhD

Lab Manager

Email: nairouz.farah@biu.ac.il

2012 – 2014 Post Doc (Neural Engineering Interfaces Laboratory, Biomedical

Engineering Faculty, Technion, Israel)

2006 – 2012 PhD Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel

2002 – 2004 MSC Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London

(UCL), London

1998 – 2002 B.Sc Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel

My research is focused on numerical moedling of electrical stimulation of the retina and developing novel approaches for retinal prostheses for restoration of sight in retinal degeneration.

Amos Markus, PhD

Researcher

Email: amosmarkus@gmail.com

2010-2015 Ph.D in Molecular Neuro-virology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

2009-2010 M.Sc in Molecular Neuro-virology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

2006-2008 B.Sc in Life Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Hebrew University

My research is focused on studying the application of nano-particles and human embryonic stem cell derived photoreceptors for the treatment of retinal degradation disease

Erel Lasnoy

Researcher

Email: erellasnoy@gmail.com

2015-2017 M.Sc in Physical chemistry, Bar Ilan University

2012-2015 B.Sc in Chemistry expanded, Bar Ilan University

Tamar Azrad-Leibovitch

PhD student

Email: ttaazr@gmail.com

2014-2016 M.Sc in Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

2010-2013 B.Sc in Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel

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Gal Shpun, Eng.

PhD. Student

Co-Advisor: Prof. Zeev Zalevski, Bar Ilan University

Email: galshpun@gmail.com

2015-2018 M.Sc Electrical engineering, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

2010-2014 B.Sc Bio-Medical engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

My research focuses on developing optical and electrical methods for neuromodulation at a single cell resolution through advanced nanotechnology, which is applied at a subretinal implant prosthesis aiming to

restore sight for the blinds.