CV and Prizes

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Gruenbaum, Yosef

Nationality: Israeli

 

  • EDUCATION
1979-1982

PhD, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Hadassah School of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Supervisor Prof. Aaron Razin

1973-1976 M.Sc. Material Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1970-1973 B.Sc. Chemistry and in Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • CURRENT POSITIONS
1999-present

Full Professor, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2005-present

Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.

  • PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2010-2011

Visiting Professor, The Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel

1996-1999

Associate Professor, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1985-1991

Lecturer, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1982-1985

Postdoctoral Associate with Prof. John Sedat, UCSF, San Francisco, USA.

  • FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2015

The Mathilda Marks-Kennedy Chair in Biochemistry.

2014

Doctor Honoris Causa (M.D.), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

2006

Honour Medal, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

2005

William T. Golden Scholar in Residence, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA.

2002-2004

The Gruss Lipper Fellowship, Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA.

1995

Zyma Award, Switzerland

1982-1984

Fogarty-NIH Award for distinguished foreign post-doctoral fellows, UCSF, USA

1982-1985

Alon Fellowship for distinguished young Israeli scientists. Israel.

  • ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2012

Nuclear Organization and Dynamics”, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (funded by EMBO, Israeli Science Foundation, COST NanoNET and The Rothschild Foundation).

2011

EMBO workshop on mechanisms of nucleoplasmic transport, Jerusalem, Israel.

2011

EMBO workshop on chromatin, Prague, Czech Republic.

2009

“Nuclear Organization and Dynamics”, Israel Science Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel.

2008

“Laminopathic diseases”, Euro-laminopathy meeting funded by EU-FP6, Jerusalem, Israel.

2005-2007

“The dynamics of the nucleus”. A yearly international symposiums in Israel.

  • INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2012-Current

Chairman, Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

1998-1999 & 2008-09

Head, Department of Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

2012-present

Initiated and supervised a community outreach biology teaching high school program for at-risk youth in a desert periphery development town.

  • COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
Current

Editorial Board, Aging Cell, Nucleus and Peer J.

2005 – present

Member of Faculty 1000

  • MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Current

American Society for Cell Biology, Israel Developmental Society, Israel Genetic Society

2010-2014

Vice-chair, COST NanoNET network.

2005-2009

Member, EU-FP6 network EURO-Laminopathies.

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