Lab's Head

Dr. Elimelech Nesher became a Department Member of Ariel University in 2018.

Dr. Nesher completed his Ph.D. studies in Molecular Biology in January 2015 at Bar-Ilan University. By completion, he made his Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Cell Stress Department of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, NY) working with a large panel of cell-based assays designed to detect modulators of a variety of signaling pathways including Multiple drug resistance (MDR), interferon response genes, p53, NF-kB, heat shock, hypoxia and other types of stress responses. He studied the role of histone chaperones and chromatin damage in cancer development and treatment and established that the chromatin-damaging property of DNA-binding small molecules is more important for their anti-cancer activity than DNA damaging.

Dr. Nesher is the Head of the Tumor Cells Biology Lab. His research is mainly concentrated on the biological role of histone chaperones in chromatin maintenance and cancer metabolism.