Yael Mardor, PhD

Email: yael.mardor@sheba.health.gov.il

Phone: Israel 03-5302993, International +972-3-530-2993

Position: Chief Scientist, Advanced Technology Center

Areas of Expertise: brain, brain tumors, MRI, drug delivery, cancer

Education: PhD in Nuclear Physics Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

 Associate Professor of Oncology Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Affiliations:

The Advanced Technology Center and Radiology Institute, Sheba Medical Center; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University

Research Interests: 

Drug delivery into the brain, blood-brain barrier, brain MRI, brain tumors, cancer imaging

Publications: 

Here is a link to the list of publications of Dr. Yael Mardor in PubMed. PubMed is a database of scientific articles in the fields of medicine and life sciences

Research Grants and Awards: 

1989, Faculty of Exact Sciences excellence award

1992, Faculty of Exact Sciences excellence award

1995, Faculty of Exact Sciences excellence award

1997, Faculty of Exact Sciences excellence award

1999, Excellent poster presentation award at the research day of Sheba Medical Center, Israel: “Diffusion weighted proton MRS; Applications to cancer cell metabolism and oncologic pharmacology”, Y. Mardor, O. Kaplan, M. Sterin, J. Ruiz-Cabello, E. Ash, I. Ringel and J.S. Cohen.

1999, Excellent poster presentation award at the Annual meeting of the Israel society for physiology and pharmacology: “Diffusion weighted proton MRS; Applications to cancer cell metabolism and oncologic pharmacology”, Y. Mardor, O. Kaplan, M. Sterin, J. Ruiz-Cabello, E. Ash, I. Ringel and J.S. Cohen.

1999, Excellent poster presentation award at the sixth international congress on hormones and cancer: “Diffusion weighted proton MRS; Applications to cancer cell metabolism and oncologic pharmacology”, Y. Mardor, O. Kaplan, M. Sterin, J. Ruiz-Cabello, E. Ash, I. Ringel and J.S. Cohen.

2001, Excellent oral presentation at the research day of Sheba Medical Center, Israel: “Early Detection of Response to Radiation Therapy in Patients with Brain Malignancies Using Diffusion Weighted MRI”, Mardor Y, Raphael Pfeffer, Roberto Spiegelmann, Yiftach  Roth , Stephan E Maier, Uzi Nisim, Raanan Berger, Ami Glicksman, Arie Orenstein, Jack S Cohen & Thomas Tichler

2002, Excellent poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Israel: “Early Detection of Response of Brain Malignancies to Radiation Therapy Using Diffusion Weighted MRI”, Mardor Y, Raphael Pfeffer, Roberto Spiegelmann, Yiftach Roth, Stephan E Maier, Ouzi Nissim, Raanan Berger, Ami Glicksman, Arie Orenstein, Jack S Cohen and Thomas Tichler

2007, Excellent resident oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Israel: Pre-treatment prediction of response to radiation therapy using complexity analysis of T2 MRI images
Lior Zach, Aharon Ocherashvilli, Dianne Daniels, Yiftach Roth, Raphael Pfeffer, Roberto Spiegelmann, Doron Dinstein, Goren Gordon and Mardor Y

2008, Excellent poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Neuro Oncology (EANO), Spain: Convection-enhanced delivery of IL4 pseudomonas exotoxin (PRX321): Increased distribution and MR monitoring

 Mardor Y, David Last, Nina Merchant, Simon Denmead, Dvora Nass, Dianne Daniels and Zvi Ram

2010, One of the "50 influencing women 2010" of the Lady Globes Journal

2011, Young investigator award at the Global Academic Programs Conference (at MDACC): MRI for depiction of subtle BBB opening in GBM patients, Leor Zach, David Guez, David Last, Dianne Daniels, David Tanne, Chen Hoffman and Mardor Y

2014, Best abstract award at the annual meeting of the Israeli Society of Cancer Research (ISCR), Delayed contrast mri – a novel tool for decision making in neuro-oncology ISCR Leor Zach, David Guez, David Last, Dianne Daniels, Yuval Grober, Ouzi Nissim, Chen Hoffmann, Dvora Nass, Alisa Talianski, Roberto Spiegelmann, Galia Tsarfay, Sharona Salomon, Moshe Hadani, Andrew Kanner, Debora Blumenthal, Felix Bukstein, Michal Yalon, Jacob Zauberman, Jonathan Roth, Yigal Shoshan, Evgeniya Fridman, Marc Wygoda, Dror Limon, Tzahala Tzuk, Zvi R Cohen ,Mardor Y

2015, Oral presentation abstract selected as best of ASTRO at the Americal Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting. Delayed contrast MRI for differentiating brain tumors from treatment-effects in conventional and combined treatments. Mardor Y, Dianne Daniels, David Guez, David Last, Yuval Grober, Ouzi Nissim, Dvora Nass, Chen Hoffmann, Galia Tsarfaty, Alisa Talianski, Roberto Spiegelmann, Sharona Salomon, Andrew Kanner, Debora T Blumenthal, Felix Bukstein, Yigal Shoshan, Marc Wygoda, Dror Limon, Zvi R Cohen, Leor Zach.

2016, paper selected to be featured in the AJNR podcast. Early Biomarkers from Conventional and Delayed-Contrast MRI to Predict the Response to Bevacizumab in Recurrent High-Grade. Gliomas. Dianne Daniels, David Guez, David Last, Chen Hoffmann, Dvora Nass, Alisa Talianski, Galia Tsarfaty, Sharona Salomon, Andrew A Kanner, Deborah T Blumenthal, Felix Bokstein, Sagi Harnof, Daniel Yekutieli, Shani Zamir, Zvi R Cohen, Leor Zach, Mardor Y

2017, paper Selected for AJNR News Digest. Early Biomarkers from Conventional and Delayed-Contrast MRI to Predict the Response to Bevacizumab in Recurrent High-Grade. Gliomas. Dianne Daniels, David Guez, David Last, Chen Hoffmann, Dvora Nass, Alisa Talianski, Galia Tsarfaty, Sharona Salomon, Andrew A Kanner, Deborah T Blumenthal, Felix Bokstein, Sagi Harnof, Daniel Yekutieli, Shani Zamir, Zvi R Cohen, Leor Zach, Mardor Y

Patents:

• Patent # 28314 – COMPOSITION FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF DRUG DELIVERY, Mardor Y and Ram Z, September 2004 (PCT September 2005, approved in Israel on 2011, approved in USA on Dec 2012)

• Patent pending #39379 – ASSESSMENT OF BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION, Israeli D, Mardor Y and Volk T, May 2007 (PCT May 2008, approved in Israel Oct 2013)

   

• Patent #54509 – MAGNETIC RESONANCE MAPS FOR ANALYZING TISSUE, Zach L, Guez D, Last D, Daniels D and Mardor Y, Oct 2011 (patent approved in USA)

• Patent #56456 – MAGNETIC RESONANCE MAPS FOR ANALYZING TISSUE, Zach L, Guez D, Last D, Daniels D and Mardor Y, April 2013 (patent approved in USA)

   

• Patent pending - METHOD FOR CHANGING BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER PERMEABILITY, Mardor Y, Sharabi S, Daniels D, Guez D, Last D, Bresler Y, Cooper I, Dec 2017