Nurit Kaiser, Ph.D.
Tel: 972-2-6776786
Fax: 972-2-6437940
e-mail: kaiser@md.huji.ac.il

Prof. Nurit Kaiser holds a M. Pharm. degree from the Hebrew University School of Pharmacy, Jerusalem, Israel, and a Ph.D. degree in Biochemical Pharmacology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She completed three years of postdoctoral training at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, The University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA and spent one year as a visiting scientist and Lecturer at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Prof. Kaiser joined the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Hadassah University Hospital in 1978 and she is currently an Associate Professor of Experimental Endocrinology. She is interested in beta-cell function in diabetes and her research focuses on insulin biosynthesis and secretion, islet cell growth and apoptosis, and animal models of diabetes. She is currently involved in studies aimed to develop alternative source of insulin secreting cells for the treatment of diabetes. Prof. Kaiser is the author of 74 publications and chapters in books and an active member of several organizations of Endocrinology and Diabetes.