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Amir Tirosh
Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Dr. Tirosh received his MD (Summa Cum Laude) and PhD in Biochemistry from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Sheba Medical Center in Israel and fellowship in Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Dr. Tirosh completed his post-doctoral training at the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health under the supervision of Dr. Gokhan Hotamisligil.
In 2018, Dr. Tirosh was appointed Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital in Israel, ranked by Newsweek as one of the top 10 hospitals in the world. His main research activities include the pathophysiology of type 2 and type 1 diabetes and more recently, the effects of the obese adipose tissue on cancer cell growth and development.
He is also extensively involved in clinical studies and translational projects in type 1 diabetes. Dr. Tirosh is a member of the Israeli National Council for Diabetes and chair the sub-committee for type 1 diabetes. Dr. Tirosh received competitive grants from the National Institution of Health, the American Diabetes Association, the Israeli Science Foundation and the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals.