Yehezkel Ben-Ari - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 1971 Docteur Es Science, Sorbonne University Paris
  
• 1973 - 1979 post-doctoral fellowships: University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Oslo (Norway) and McGill (Canada)

Positions

• 1986- DIrector of INSERM U 29 (Paris)
  
• 1999- Founder and First director of Inmed (Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology)
  
• 2011- Retirement & foundation of biotech companies:
  
  • Neurochlore: Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
    
  • BABiomedical: Machine Learning identification at birth of babies who will have later a diagnosis of autism
    
  • Baoncomedical: Novel treatments of brain tumours
    
• 2026-Founder of the Ben-Ari Institute of innovation (IBEN) that will host biotech companies

Scientific Responsibilities

• 1996 - 1999 Elected member of the scientific council, Inserm (France)
  
• 2005 - 2014 Scientific Advisory Board, Göttingen (Germany)
  
• 2003 - 2009 Scientific Committee of the Center of Neurosciences, Heidelberg University (Germany)
  
• 2006 Board of examiners of the University of excellence in the field of Neuroscience (Germany)
  

Teaching

• 2003 Professor at the doctorate school of Pasteur Institute, Paris (France)
  
• 2021 Teacher at the Neurosurgery Master course of the la Timone Hospital

Patents

• Antagonist of chloride cotransporters (NKCC1) in the treatment of Autism and other neurological and psychiatric diseases (Fragile X syndrome, Parkinson disease, Trisomy 21)
  
• Method and pharmaceutical composition for use in the treatment of glioblastoma
  
• Novel family of NKCC1 inhibitors
  
• Machine Learning program to identify children responding to Bumetanide
  
• Machine Learning Maternity analysis to identify at birth babies who will have later a diagnosis of Autism

Awards and Honors

• 2000 Grand Prix of the American Epilepsy Society (Milken foundation
  
• 2002 Grand Prix de la Santé of the EDF Foundation
  
• 2006 Rotary Club Award on brain research
  
• 2009 Grand Prix of the French Medical Research Council (Inserm)
  
• 2009 Docteur Honoris causa, University of Liège (Belgium)
  
• 2010 Grand Prix of the European Society of Epilepsy
  
• 2012 Grand Prix of the Belgium Research Foundation (Gagna Van Haeck Price -FNRS, Belgium)
  
• 2013 First prize, category: « Tremplins La Provence », 18th Economy Awards (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France) Neurochlore
  
• 2014 4th prize for Neurochlore of the 23rd Créa13 Awards organized by the CG13 (Bouches-du-Rhône, France)

Books

The Amygdaloid complex, Plenum Press

Excitatory amino acids in epilepsies, Plenum Press

Treating autism with Bumetanide -Deboeck eds (French) and MacCauley eds (English)

The 1st 1000 days (Humensis eds (French) and Cambridge Scholar (English)