Erol Cerasi, M.D.

MD 1960, University of Istanbul Medical School. MD 1964, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. PhD 1967, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. Training in Internal Medicine and in Endocrinology at the Karolinska and S?der Hospitals, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. Associate Director of the Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Karolinska Hospital, 1970-77. Invited Professor, University of Geneva Medical School, 1973-75. Professor of Endocrinology & Head, Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical Center, 1977-2001.

Major Honors & Awards:
Oskar Minkowski Award of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, 1974.
President of the Scandinavian Society for Diabetes Research, 1975-1977.
E.F.F. Copp Memorial Lecturer, 1984.
Co-chairman, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International Medical Advisory Council, 1984-1990.
?ker Memorial Lecturer, 1987 and 1996.
President of the Israel Endocrine Society, 1996-2000.
Member of the Medical Science Review Committee, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, 1996-1999.
Maurice D?rot Award of the French Diabetes Association, 1997.
Mary Jane Kugel Award of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, 1999
Elkeles Prize for the Outstanding Scientist in the Field of Medicine, 2000

Research Interests:
Since the early 1960's the research interests have been in the field of diabetes, specifically on the regulation of insulin production in normal and diabetic beta-cells, on the molecular control of glucose transport, and more recently on several aspects of the molecular control of insulin gene expression and approaches to gene therapy in diabetes. Since several years these studies are performed in close collaboration with coworkers of the Department, mainly with R. Nesher, D. Melloul, N. Kaiser, S. Sasson, and G. Leibowitz.