Naomi Habib () is an Israeli computational neuroscientist who researches cognitive decline and resilience. She has worked as the Goren-Khazzam Lecturer in Brain Sciences and an assistant professor at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

since 2018.

Life

Habib earned a Ph.D. in computational biology from the

in 2012. Her doctoral advisers were Nir Friedman and

Hanah Margalit Hanah Margalit () is a Professor in the faculty of medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research combines bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology, specifically in the fields of gene regulation in bacteria and eukar ...

. Her dissertation was titled ''Computational Comparative Study of Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes''. She conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the

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under

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and

Aviv Regev Aviv Regev (Hebrew language, Hebrew: אביב רגב; born 11 July 1971) is a computational biologist and systems biologist and Executive Vice President and Head of Genentech Research and Early Development in Genentech/Roche. She is a core membe ...

. She was researching the development of a single nucleus

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technology. Habib is a computational neuroscientist who researches cognitive decline and resilience. She specializes in computational biology, genomics, and genome engineering. In August 2018, she returned to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the Gorem-Khazzam Lecturer in Brain Sciences and an assistant professor at the

Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) () is a brain science research center affiliated with Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The director of the center is Prof. Leon Y. Deouell. History The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain ...

. Her research includes

Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems wit ...

pathology.

References

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