Karen B. Avraham

Dr. Karen Avraham is Vice Dean at the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and holds the Drs. Sarah and Felix Dumont Chair for Research of Hearing Disorders. She is an affiliated faculty member at the Sagol School of Neuroscience and the Safra Center for Bioinformatics. Inspired by a family with GRIN2D, she leads the effort in elucidating the mechanisms of GRIN2D in developmental delay and epilepsy, together with neuroscientist Dr. Moran Rubinstein. Dr. Avraham is co-director of the Tel Aviv University Aufzien Family Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and the Taube-Koret Global Collaboration in Neurodegenerative Diseases. She is a member of the EMBO (Excellence in Life Sciences) Council, the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) Council, the International Society for Inner Ear Therapeutics, the Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss, and chairs the scientific committee of the Foundation Pour L’Audition in France.