Liora Haim-Vilmovsky

Liora Haim-Vilmovsky is currently a Functional Genomics Scientific Curator and Gene Nomenclature Advisor at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) since July 2021. Prior to this role, Liora served as an Immune Oncology Scientist at Horizon Discovery for a brief period in 2021, and as a Postdoctoral Visitor and Research Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and EMBL-EBI from August 2013 to July 2018. Liora's earlier research experience includes a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology from April 2011 to August 2013, focusing on the molecular regulation of T helper cell subtype plasticity, as well as a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science from April 2005 to March 2011, investigating endogenous mRNA and protein trafficking in living yeast. Liora completed a PhD in Life Sciences at the Weizmann Institute from 2005 to 2010, following a Master's degree in the same field from 2002 to 2004 and a Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Sciences from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev from 1999 to 2002.