Development, Aging and Regeneration

Prof. Dafna Benayahu

Stem cell metabolism & tissue regeneration

Prof. Benayahu’s research has two arms; one is on mesenchymal stem cells (NSCs) differentiation and related pathophysiology of skeletal and fat tissues. The mesenchymal cells are the main regulators of immune cells in the bone marrow and in fat tissue. The role of MSCs in aging and diseases is due to their capacity to convert into lipid-accumulating fat cells Various pathways serve as cues in the niche

Prof Benayahu is at the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and the Director of the Marian Gertner Institute for Medical Nano-systems. She is currently the President of the Israel Calcified Tissue . Society She has served as head of the Department and of the Nomination Committee at the Faculty of Medicine . Prof. Benayahu’s research is funded by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Science, and the Ministry of Commerce . She has served as editor of a book, guest editor on special issues and reviewer for numerous international journals. https ://benayahulab.wixsite .com/benayahudafnatau regulating stem cell differentiation. The lab also uses mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) for various clinical applications such as immunomodulatory therapies and in cell replacement therapies application related to metabolic disease and tissue regeneration.