Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Ph.D

Naama Geva-Zatorsky, is a Principal Investigator of biology at the Technion, Faculty of Medicine, Technion Integrated Cancer Center. She is applying systems-biology approaches together with microbiology and immunology to study the interactions between gut microbes and their associated bacteriophages on host physiology. Geva-Zatorsky received her B.Sc. from Tel Aviv University, double-major Chemistry and Biology, summa cum laude, her M.Sc. and Ph.D., from the Weizmann Institute, studying systems-biology with Prof. Uri Alon, completed with honors. And recently, she concluded her postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School, studying gut microbiota-host interactions with Prof. Dennis Kasper. Geva-Zatorsky is a recipient of the national and international UNESCO-L’Oreal award, the Human Frontiers and EMBO fellowships; the John F. Kennedy, Teva and Barenholz awards for academic excellence, and recently, at the Technion, she received the Horev and Alon honors.