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Professor Rony Seger
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Professor Dr. Rony Seger has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Regulation at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, since 2000, and was Senior Investigator at the Weizmann Institute from 1994 to 2000.
Prof. Seger brings with him nearly twenty yeas of experience in the field of protein kinases and signal-transduction. In addition to his position at the Weizmann Institute, Prof. Seger was recently appointed Chief Scientific Officer of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
Prof. Seger published over seventy peer-reviewed articles and is the recipient of several awards including the Alon Fellowship awarded by the Israeli Academy of Science, the H.R. Lindner Prize awarded by the Israeli Endocrine Society, and the Young Investigator award from the International and the European Societies of Neurosciense (ISN/ESN).
Prof. Seger was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Professor E.G. Krebs at the University of Washington in Seattle, and was first to identify and clone critical components in the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascades.
Prof. Seger holds a B.Sc. with honors in biology from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biochemistry, both from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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