Uri Nir
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Biography
Uri Nir leads the "Cancer metabolism" research lab in the Faculty of Life-Sciences at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Between the years 2010-2014 he served as the dean of the Faculty. Nir gained his PhD degree from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Israel. He then went for a post-doctoral training in the "Hormone-Research Institute" at the University of California San-Francisco, CA., USA. Since 1988 Nir is a faculty member in the Mina and Everard Faculty of Life-Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. The main research interest of the Nir's group is: Identification of key regulators of the reprogrammed energy-generation system of cancer cells and the development of new anti-cancer compounds.