Prof. Dalit Ben Yosef

Director; IVF Lab and Wolfe PGD Stem Cell LabRacine IVF Unit; Lis Maternity Hospital


Education

1985-1988: BSc, Faculty of Life Science, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
1988-1996: MSc/PhD Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
2001-2003: Postdoctoral Fellow, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.


Clinical experience

1996- 2016: Director, IVF Lab and Wolfe PGD Stem Cell Lab, Racine IVF Unit, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel 
2004 – 2007 - Elected Secretary, Israel Fertility Society.
2007- Present - Israeli Ministry of Health advisory committee on IVF laboratories.
2016- Present - Scientific Director, division of infertility and IVF, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Academic experience

2007 - Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2014 - Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University
2020 - Full Professor, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, Faculty of Medicine; Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University

 

Major Fields of Interest
IVF, Embryo Development, Stem cells, Cell differentiation & regeneration, Genetic diseases

 

Conference participation

>250 presentations in international scientific meetings

 

Professional publications

Over 100 peer-reviewed articles in leading scientific journals.

For a list of publications, refer to PubMed.

 

Prizes and achievements

1992-1995, The Joseph Buchmann Doctoral Scholarship Fund.
1995 - Award of the Israel fertility association.
2005 - American society of reproduction medicine (ASRM) - prize paper

2006-2008- Grant of the National Fragile X Foundation (NFXF)

2006-2010 - Grant of the ISF - Israel Science Foundation

2010-2012 - Grant from the Ministry of Health

2011 - Excellency Award, Switzerland Institute for Developmental Biology

2012 - Award of the Israel Fertility Association for outstanding basic research

2012 – Award for original research from the Israeli Stem Cell Society

2014 - The Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience

2015-2017 - Grant of the Israel Cancer Research Foundation (ICRF).

2020-2025 – Grants of the ISF - Israel Science Foundation

2023-2024 - Grant of the SCRM - Sagol Center for Regenerative Medicine

2020-2025 - The Sagol fund for embryos and stem cells as part of the Sagol Network

Union membership

The Israel Fertility Society, Israel
Alpha Scientists in Reproductive Medicine, Europe
The Israeli Society of IVF embryologists.
Israel Stem Cell Society
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society
PGD ESHRE consortsium
International Stem Cell Consortsium
Israel Society for Neuroscience