Stem Cell Stars Seminar: Leveraging Single-Cell Technologies to Engineer the Immune System with Prof. Ido Amit

Talk Title: "Leveraging Single-Cell Technologies to Engineer the Immune System"

When: 05 March 2026 | 15:00 - 16:00 + mingle

Where: Segerfalksalen, BMC A10

Chair: Professor Filipe Pereira

Following the lecture, take the opportunity to mingle and connect with colleagues and fellow researchers over refreshments at our post-seminar gathering. This is a wonderful opportunity to expand your professional network and share ideas in a relaxed setting. 

All are welcome, and no registration is required!

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About the Speaker:

Ido Amit

• Eden and Steven Romick Professorial Chair, Weizmann Institute of Science

Prof. Ido Amit earned his PhD in biological regulation at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2007. He conducted a four-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining the Weizmann Institute in 2011, where his is now the Eden and Steven Romick Professorial Chair.

Today, Prof. Amit is renowned in the science community as a leader in immunogenomics, a new field aimed at detecting and engineering specific immune activity to combat disease.  His team are world leaders in developing single-cell genomic technologies and their application in immunology and medicine. The Amit Lab has pioneered the field of single cell genomics and using these technologies, revealed cellular localization, clonality, cell-cell interactions, signaling and regulatory circuits determining immune activity.

These powerful single-cell tools enabled them to uncover novel cell types, pathways and targets of immune regulation in the fields of development, cancer, metabolism, autoimmunity and neurodegenerative diseases. They apply these novel tools in animal models and human patients to uncover immune regulatory mechanisms and pathways. Together these unique technology, and knowhow in diverse genome engineering, and synthetic immunology, have enabled Prof. Amit and his team to develop novel immunotherapies. 

Prof. Amit is also the recipient of numerous awards for academic and scientific excellence, including the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2020), the Sanofi-Institute Pasteur Junior Award (2019), recognition as an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2017), the EMBO Gold Medal Award (2016), the Helen and Martin Kimmel Award for Innovative Investigation (2016), and the Rappaport Prize (2016) for his work in revealing the function of the immune system. He was elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2017.

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