Prof. Michal Mandelboim

Email:  michalman@sheba.gov.il

Phone:  Israel 050-624-3315   03-530-2455

            International  +972-3-530-2455    +972-50-624-3315

Position:  Head of the National Influenza and Other

Respiratory Viruses Center

Areas of Expertise:  Viruses 

Education:  Professor of Virology

Residencies and Further Training:

I am the head of the National Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses at the Central Virology Laboratory of the Ministry of Health. My laboratory is part of the World Health Organization (WHO) National Influenza Center (NICs) global Network. As a national center our lab is involved both in routine diagnostic and epidemiological work and in research and development focusing on pathogenesis and epidemiology of respiratory viruses, and on development and evaluation of laboratory assays, vaccines and anti- viral drugs. We investigate several respiratory viruses in particular. These include: Influenza (including the pandemic influenza virus H1N1pdm), hMPV, RSV, with human corona viruses such as: MERS, NL63, OC43, 229E, HKU1 and most importantly SARS-CoV-2. In particular, we are experts in monitoring and detecting SARS-CoV-2 infection using RT-PCR and serological tests. Furthermore, we performed whole genome sequencing several SARS-CoV-2 viruses, we grow the various viruses including the variants and monitor immunity against these viruses.

Affiliations

Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health,

Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, 52621, Israel.

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,

School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine,

Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Research Interests

Clinical virology

Publications

Here is a link to the list of publications of Professor Michal Mandelboim in PubMed.  PubMed is a database of scientific articles in the fields of medicine and life sciences.

Research Grants &Awards

1984 - Wolf award for BSc students.

1985 - Lithuanian award for BSc students.

2000 - The Bar-Ilan presidential Scholarship for outstanding PhD students.

2019-  Sarov prize for clinical virology