Nathali Kaushansky
University in Rehovot, Israel
Biography
Nathali Kaushansky, PhD, is a staff scientist in the Neurobiology Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She received her BSc in Chemistry and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. She completed her PhD studies and post-doctoral training in the Immunology Department in The Weizmann Institute of Science. In the last 10 years her work has focused on characterization of autoimmune T- and B-cells against myelin and neuronal target antigensin Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Her study aims to establish a highly specific “multi – targeting†immunomodulatory approach via co-antagonizing of most known and potentially pathogenic T-cell autoreactivities in MS. The primary goals of her recent research were 1: studying mechanisms underlying immunomodulation by this multi epitope targeting agent (specifically designed artificial multi-epitope protein (Y-MSPc)-recently published) and 2: Studying immunogenetics of susceptibility to MS, mainly at defining HLA-DR2-related epitopes of the different most important myelin target antigens in MS.