Prof. Illana Gozes, PhD
Illana Gozes is Professor Emerita, Director of Elton Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences & Sagol School of Neuroscience, formerly Lily and Avraham Gildor Chair & Director of Adams Super Center for Brain Studies at Tel Aviv University. Currently also VP, R&D, Exonavis Therapeutics, developing her invention, the investigational neuroprotective drug davunetide, for brain diseases. Her discovery of ADNP, the parent protein of davunetide, opened new research and development horizons. Prof. Gozes is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Molecular Neuroscience. She is also the President of the European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN).