Hermona Soreq - Curriculum Vitae#

Hermona Soreq (H-factor: 76) was trained at The Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute and the Rockeffeler University. She joined The Hebrew University in 1986, holds a Slesinger Chair in Molecular Neuroscience and is a founding member of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Science. Soreq’s research pioneered the molecular biology and genomics approaches to acetylcholine signaling, with a recent focus on its non-coding RNA and microRNA regulation; spanning both basic and biomedical studies in health and disease, particularly anxiety-related topics. Soreq is the elected President of the International Organization of Cholinergic Mechanisms, and served as the elected Dean of the Faculty of Science (2005-2008).

She authored over 300 publications, including 57 in high-impact journals including Science, Nature and PNAS; and received significant funding from US, European and Israeli foundations including an Advanced ERC Award and an Israeli I-Core Center of Excellence on Mass Trauma.

Soreq’s honors include Honorary PhDs from the Universities of Stockholm (1996), Ben-Gurion University (2007), and Erlangen (2008), Teva Founders’ Award (2006), The Lise Meitner Alexander von Humboldt Award (2009), a Berlin NeuroCure visiting fellowship (2015-2017), a Rappaport prize for bio-medical research (2015), an International Psychoneuroimmunology Award (2016) and the ILANIT-Katzir prize (2017). She is a member of The Hebrew University’s Executive Committee and scientific advisory boards for national and international bodies, including the Immunosensation Center, Bonn and the International Advisory Boards of the UK-Israel Council and BGU’s National Center of Biotechnology. Notably, 25 of her trainees are faculty members in Israel (In Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, the Galilee and Beer Sheva) and overseas (UC Berkeley, Maryland, Halifax, Ann Arbor, Paris, Tours, Gottingen, London), or contribute to government and private biotechnology organizations.