Dr. Yosef S. Haviv
Department of Nephrology
Hadassah University Hospital
Ein Karem, Jerusalem.
E-mail: yhaviv@hadassah.org.il
Personal Details
Born: 1964, Jerusalem, Israel
Higher Education and Professional Activity
1986-1992 Hebrew University Medical School
1989 B.Sc
1992 M.D.
1994-2000 Resident, senior resident, chief resident, Departments of Medicine and Nephrology,
Hadassah Medical Center
2000-2002 Post-Doctorate Fellowship, Gene Therapy Center, University of Alabama at
Birmingham.
2002-2003 Research Assistant Professor, Division of Human Gene Therapy, University
of Alabama at Birmingham
2002- Member, Gene Therapy Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2003- Senior Physician, Departments of Medicine and Nephrology, Hadassah Medical
Center
2003- Established a Kidney Gene Therapy Program at Hadassah Medical Center
2003- Peer reviewer for leading renal and cancer scientific journals and research grants
2003- ad hoc adviser for Gene Therapy clinical trials, Israeli Ministry of Health
2003- The Nephrology and Hypertension consultant of the Medical Corps, Israeli
Defense Force (Captain)
2005- Senior Lecturer, Hadassah-Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, currently
mentoring 2 PhD students and 2 Msc students
2007- Medical director, Zora dialysis center
2007- Clinical investigator and Israel's representative, multinational PEAK renal anemia
initiative
2008- Treasurer, Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension
Honors and Awards
1992 Faculty Prize: Hadassah-Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, the Saul
Molchoe award for M.D. thesis
1992 Final year medical school exams in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine with
honors
1996 Military Medical Course with honors
1998 ECFMG medical license exams, Stages I+II with honors
1998 Internal Medicine board exam, stage II with honors
2000 Nephrology board exams, stage I with honors
2000 Faculty Prize: Hadassah-Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, The Adam
Pedegrin award for clinical excellence
2001 American Society for Gene Therapy Travel Award for Excellent Post-Doctoral
Fellow Research in Gene Therapy
2003 National American Award: The National Kidney Foundation (NKF USA) Young
Investigator Award
2003 B. de Rothschild Fund of the Israel Science Foundation: Physician-Scientist
Award
2006,7 Selected as one of the 30 worlds' promising young nephrologists, PEAK renal anemia initiative
2007 Outstanding teacher award, Hadassah-Hebrew University Faculty of
Medicine
2008 Selected as one of the 15 world leaders in kidney gene therapy, Myrovlytis Trust, UK
Research Funding and Grants
1998- Israeli ministry of health, “hypercoagulable factors in hemodialysis patients”,
40,000 NIS/40,000 NIS, # 8
2000 Israel-University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Medical Exchange Fund,
Gene Therapy Training, 46,000$/46,000$
2000 American Physicians Fellowship for Medicine in Israel, Gene Therapy
Training, 5,000$/5,000$
2000 Israel Medical Association, Gene Therapy Training, 16,000 NIS/16,000 NIS
2003 National Kidney Foundation Young Investigator Grant, “Targeted Gene
Therapy for Renal Cancer”, 50,000 $/50,000 $
2003 Hadassah Fund for Returning Physicians, “Targeted Gene Therapy for Renal
Cancer”, 92,000 NIS/92,000 NIS
2003 B. De Rothschild Physician-Scientist Award, “Targeted Gene Therapy for
Renal Cancer”, 70,000 $/70,000 $
2003 Israeli Science Foundation, “Targeted Gene Therapy for Renal Cancer”,
404,000 NIS/404,000 NIS
2004 Hadassah Medical Organization, “Gene Therapy for Cancer”, 48,000 NIS/ 48,000 NIS
2005 Joint Fund Hebrew University Medical School, “Gene Therapy for Cancer”,
50,000 NIS/ 50,000 NIS
2006 German Israeli Foundation, “3D system for melanoma gene therapy”, 80,000 €
/ 170,000 € (with Dr. Nettelbeck, DKFZ, Germany)
2006 Israeli ministry of health, “Kidney Gene Therapy”, 160,000 NIS/160,000 NIS
2008 Pharmaceutical companies, "Clinical Nephrology Data Base", 75,000 NIS
2008 Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Women’s Health Foundation,
“Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment via Cancer Gene Therapy”, 80,000 NIS/80,000 NIS
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