Oded Abramsky was born in Jerusalem. He received M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He did his residency in Neurology at the Hadassah University Hospital and became Board Certified in Neurology in 1973. In 1981-1988 he was the Chairman of the Division of Neurology and Neurosurgery in the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School. In 1982 he was appointed Head of the Neuroimmunolgoy Unit at Hadassah Medical Organization, and Professor of Neurology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Research Interests: Clinical and experimental autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system, the peripheral nerve, the neuromuscular junction. Immunomodulation of multiple sclerosis and immune mediated neurological disorders.Myelination and demyelination. Immunology of neurodegenerative diseases.