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2020 Lautenberg Center Progress Report

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students that graduated / received prizes:<br />

1. Yiska Weisblum- completed her PhD studies. Studied viral transmission in the maternalfetal<br />

interface. Graduated with distinction and received 2 excellence prizes (Hebrew<br />

University & Faculty of Medicine).<br />

Currently – she is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rockefeller University, NYC.<br />

2. Amnon Berger- received MD/PhD degree – has studied viral infection in the developing<br />

fetal brain. Currently he is participating in a distinguished physician- researcher residency<br />

program at Harvard.<br />

3. Esther Djian- Completed her PhD studies. Studies new antiviral drugs. She is currently a<br />

Post Doctoral student in my lab and the supervisor of the SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic lab.<br />

Received the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship of the EU.<br />

4. Olesya Vorontsov- completed her MSc degree. She is currently a PhD student in my lab,<br />

studying local immune control of human viruses in human target tissues.<br />

5. Ido From completed his PhD studies. Studied and developed new models of viral entry<br />

site and reactivation. Currently he heads a major Poultry Health Viral Diagnostic Lab.

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