Biography
B.Sc.Pharm - Hebrew University, 2007
M.Sc. - Tel-Aviv University, 2009
Ph.D. - Technion Institute, 2015
Postdoctoral - MIT, 2015-2019
Assistant Professor - Hebrew University, 2019-2022
Associate Professor - Hebrew University, 2022-Present
Prof. Amal conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It was there where he started his journey working on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Prof. Amal has received many awards/grants including the German DFG grant, the Israel Science Foundation, and the prestigious Krill Prize administered by the Wolf Foundation. He was listed among the 40 under 40 most promising young people by The Marker Magazine, and he received The Kaye Innovation Award, the Prusiner Abramsky Neuroscience Award, Maof Research Grant, the Golda Meir Lectureship Award, and the MIT-Technion Postdoc Fellowship.
Just recently, he won the Eagles Autism Foundation Research Grant. Professor Amal is the first international scientist to win this prestigious grant!
He was the first to show the first link between nitric oxide (NO) and Autism published in Advanced Science. One of the other discoveries showed similar pathological similarities between ASD and AD pathologies. He also works on the role of NO in brain cancers.
