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Yaron Fuchs, Ph.D.
Date of Birth 12/11/1978
Present Address: Holand 32nd Street Haifa, Israel
Emails: [email protected]
Telephone: +972-77-877-1691
Website: http://yfuchs.net.technion.ac.il
Academic information
10.2014- Present Assistant Professor. Head, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative
Medicine. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences & Engineering, Technion Integrated
Cancer Center and The Faculty of Biology. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
- Deloro Career Advancement Chair
- Adjunct Faculty at The Rockefeller University.
2010-2014 Post-Doctoral fellow. Steller Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University.
2004- 2010 Direct Ph.D. Track for Outstanding Students. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
2001-2004 B.Sc. Biology. University of Haifa.
Awards & Honors
1. Awarded the German-Israeli Foundation Award for Young Scientists (2017).
2. Awarded the Deloro Career advancement chair in The Leaders in Science and Technology
Program. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Israel (2015).
3. Chosen by Rockefeller University as its candidate for the New York Academy of Science
Blavatnik Award for young scientists (2014).
Awards & Honors (continued)
4. Chosen by Rockefeller University as its nominee for the NIH Early Independence
Primary Investigator award (2011).
5. Received the Jacobs Award for Scientific Excellence (2006).
Publications
-Soteriou D and Fuchs Y.*, (2016). Stem Cell Survival: The Road to Cancer is Paved with the Best
Intentions. Commissioned by Nature Review Cancer (Impact factor 34.24) in preparation
*corresponding author
- Yosefzon Y., Soteriou D., Kostic L., Sedov E., Glaser F. and Fuchs Y.*, (2016). Caspase-3 Regulates
YAP-dependent Organ Size and Skin Regeneration. Submitted to Science (Impact factor 34.66)
*corresponding author
- Koren E. and Fuchs Y.* (2016) The bad seed: Cancer stem cells in tumor development and resistance.
Drug Resistance updates, 28, 1-12. (Impact factor 7.95) *corresponding author
- Fuchs Y.* and Steller H*., (2015): Live to die another way- Modes of programmed cell death and the
signals emanating from dying cells. Nature Review Molecular Cell Biology. 16,6, 329-344.
(Impact factor 38.6) *corresponding author
- Fuchs Y., Brown S., Gorenc T., Rodriguez J., Fuchs E. and Steller H., (2013): Sept4/ARTS regulates
stem-cell apoptosis and skin regeneration. Science 341, 6143 286-289. (Impact factor 34.66)
- Perez-Garijo A., Fuchs Y. and Steller H., (2013): Apoptotic cells can induce non-autonomous
apoptosis through the TNF-pathway. eLife 2013, 2, e01004. (Impact factor 8.3)
- Fuchs Y., Brunwasser M., Haif S., Hadad J., Shneyer B., Goldshmidt-Tran O., Korsensky L., Abed
M., Zisman-Rosen S., Koren L., Carmi Y., Apte R., Yang B.R., Orian A., Bejar J., and Ron D., (2012):
Sef is a novel inhibitor of pro-inflammatory cytokine signalling, acting by cytoplasmic sequestration of
NF-κB. Developmental Cell 23,611-623. (Impact factor 9.3)
- Fuchs Y. and Steller H., (2011): Programmed cell death in animal development and disease.
Cell 147,4,742-58. (Impact factor 28.7)
- Ron D., Fuchs Y., Chorev DS., (2008): Know thy Sef: a novel class of feedback antagonists of receptor
tyrosine kinase signaling. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 40,2040-52. (Impact factor 4.2)
- Zisman-Rozen S., Fink D., Ben-Izhak O., Fuchs Y, Brodski A., Kraus M. H., Bejar J. and Ron D.,
(2007): Down-regulation of Sef, an inhibitor of receptor tyrosine kinase signalling, is common to a
variety of human carcinomas. Oncogene 6,26,6093-8. (Impact factor 8.45)
- Fuchs Y.#, Ziv I.#, Preger E., Shabtay A., Harduf H., Zilpa T., Dym N., Ron D., (2006): The human
Sef-a isoform utilizes different mechanisms to regulate FGFR signalling pathways and subsequent cell
fate. J Biol Chem. 51, 39225-35 [# Both authors equally contributed]. (Impact factor 4.5)
- Fuchs Y., Douek, J., Rinkevich B., Ben-Shlomo R., (2006): Gene diversity and mode of reproduction
in the brooded larvae of the coral heteroxenia fuscescens. J Hered. 5,493-8 (Impact factor 2.075)
Technical publications
- Kostic L., Sedov E., Soteriou D., Yosefzon Y. and Fuchs Y.*, (2016) Isolation of stem cells and
progenitors from mouse epidermis. Accepted for publication Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology.
*corresponding author
- Soteriou D., Kostic L., Sedov E., Yosefzon Y., Steller H.* and Fuchs Y.*, (2016) Isolation of hair
follicle stem cells and epidermal keratinocytes from dorsal Mouse Skin. J. Vis Exp 29 (110), e53931, 1-6.
*corresponding author