|
About
|
Arnon Nagler, M.D., M.Sc., is director of both the Division of Hematology and the Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cord Blood Bank at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel and Professor of Medicine at The Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Prof. Nagler received his medical training at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, specializing in Internal Medicine and Haematology at the Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, and in Hematopoiesis (MSc) in TA University, Israel. He carried out a Postdoctoral research fellowship in hematology and bone marrow transplantation at “Stanford University Hospital” Palo Alto, CA, in the USA, from 1986 to 1990.
Prof. Nagler has been working in the fields of bone marrow transplantation for haematological malignancies, for the last 25 years. Prof. Nagler is one of the pioneeres of the non myeloablative and reduced intensity/toxicity allogeneic transplantations for both malignant and non-malignant disorders (Blood 1998). His main contributions and scientific interests include hematpoietic stem cell transplantation, haematological malignancies, cord blood biology and transplantation and adoptive cell-mediated immunotherapy including NK cell biology.
Prof. Nagler established the first public cord blood bank in Israel and performed the first cord blood transplantations from related and unrelated donors in genetic and malignant hematological diseases in Israel.
Prof. Nagler is active member of the EBMT since 1993. In 2001 EBMT Annual meeting (Maastricht, the Netherland) his study on IL-18 for GVHD in mice model was chosen for presentation at the presidential symposium. Over the years he was invited speaker in several of the EBMT meetings. Dr Nagler served as the leader of the Alternative donor subcommittee of the ALWP of the EBMT from 2008-2010 and from 2010 he is the leader of the RIC subcommittee of the ALWP of the EBMT.
Prof. Nagler serves on the Board o |
|
Education
|
M.D. certification from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
Specialized in Internal Medicine and Haematology at the Rambam Medical Center, Haifa
MSc. specialization in Hematopoiesis in TA University, Israel
Postdoctoral research fellowship in hematology and bone marrow transplantation at "Stanford University Hospital" Palo Alto, CA, in the USA, from 1986 to 1990. |