Biography

Dr. Oron (currently Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel) received his BSc in chemistry and his MSc and PhD in biochemistry from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He further trained in diabetes research at the University of Virginia in the laboratory of Prof. Joseph Larner and continued to study signal transduction pathways at Tel Aviv University, utilizing mainly the Xenopus oocyte system and electrophysiology and microscopic imaging techniques as read-outs. In the last fifteen years Dr. Oron changed the focus of his research to studying the biology of diabetes and pancreatic adenocarcinoma. In the past he served as Department Chair and as a Head of the Office of International Academic Relations at Tel Aviv University. He has authored and co-authored more than 110 peer-reviewed publications in quality journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, and J Physiol.

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Research Interest

Advanced technologies in the field of Diabetes.