Yehezkel Ben-Ari#
| Membership Number: | 7482 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.neurochlore.fr/home/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6208-8480 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/yehezkel-ben-ari/ |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=ben+ari+yehezkel&sort=date&size=200 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 Foundation and CEO of Baoncomedical
- 2018 foundation and CEO of BaBiomedical
- 2011 Foundation and CEO of Neurochlore
- 2011 retirement from academic research
- 2000 Founder and director of the Mediterranean Institute of neuroscience (INMED)
- 1986 - 2000 Director of UNIT29 of INSERM at the maternity of Port Royal , Paris , France
- 1977 - 1985 Team director at the Physiology Institute of the CNRS
- 1973 - 1976 Post doctoral stages at the MRC Unit Cambridge (GB), Mc Gill University (Montreal) and Oslo university
- 1971 Doctorate Es science of Sorbonne University
- 1967 - 1971 Working on brain conditionning at the Institut Marey, Paris
- 1963 - 1966 BSC and MSC at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem, Israël
Fields of Scholarship
- Brain Imaging
- Ionic currents
- Epilepsies
- Autism
- Electrophysiology
- Physiology
- Brain development
- Brain tumors and treatment developments
- Pharmacology
Honours and Awards
- 2014 4th prize of the 23rd Créa13 Awards organized by the CG13 (Bouches-du-Rhône, France) – Neurochlore
- 2013 First prize, category: « Tremplins La Provence », 18th Economy Awards organized by La Provence (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France) - Neurochlore
- 2012 Gagna Van Haeck Price - Grand Prix of the Belgium Research Foundation (FNRS, Belgium)
- 2010 Grand Prix of the European Society of Epilepsy
- 2009 Grand Prix of the French Medical Research Council (Inserm)
- 2009 Docteur Honoris causa, University of Liège (Belgium)
- 2006 Rotary Club Award on brain research
- 2002 Grand Prix de la Santé of the EDF Foundation
- 2000 Grand Prix of the American Epilepsy Society (Milken foundation)
