Team | BBB Lab

Alon Friedman (MD, PhD)

Alon Friedman is a Professor of Neuroscience and holds the Dennis Chair in Epilepsy Research at Dalhousie University in Halifax and also is a Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He completed his medical and doctoral training at Ben-Gurion University and did his residency training in neurosurgery at Soroka University Medical Center in Israel. He did his post-doctoral training at the Charité Medical University in Berlin as an Alexander von-Humboldt fellow.

His work has been recognized by multiple international awards, the most prominent being the international Michael prize for Epilepsy Research, the Mercator Professorship at the Charité Medical University in Berlin, and the Foulkes Foundation Research Award.

His research is focused on exploring the interactions between the vascular and neuronal systems within the CNS and specifically on the involvement of microvascular pathology and blood-brain barrier dysfunction in the pathogenesis of injury-related epilepsy and neurodegeneration.

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Dalhousie University

Kay Murphy

Lab Manager

Jim Kukurin

Engineer/ Manager ECoG Recording and Lab Data Storage Systems

Kevin Shanks

Software and Website Developer

Dr. Lyna Kamintsky

Post-doctoral Fellow

Dr. Gerben van Hameren

Post-doctoral Fellow

Dr. Mark Maclean

Post-doctoral Fellow

Dr. Yonatan Serlin

Post-doctoral Fellow

Dr. Ellen Parker

Research Associate

Dr. Refat Aboghazleh

Research Associate

Shayna Cort

Graduate PhD Student

Pooyan Moradi

Graduate PhD Student

Dr. Saara Mansoor

Graduate PhD Student

Sheida Mirloo

Graduate PhD Student

Jamil Muradov

Graduate PhD Student

Hamza Imtiaz

Graduate PhD Student

Sammy Pham

Graduate MSc Student

Laith Alhadeed

Graduate MSc Student

Wali Khan

Graduate MSc Student

Anna Minarik

Zambia Team Coordinator/Research Assistant

Ben McVicker

Research Coordinator Global Affairs Canada Project

Griffin Mumby

MD Student/Research Associate

Rylan Smith

MD Student/Research Associate

Caitlin Mckenna

Honours Student

Moussa Hamati

Graduate PhD Student

Keiran Andrews

Honours Student

Sina Lash

Honours Student

Sophie Orr

Honours Student

Eshan Arora

Special Projects Student

Ben-Gurion

University of the Negev

Dr. Ofer Prager

Research Associate

Evyatar Swissa

Post-doctoral Fellow

Florent Boyer-Ayme

Graduate PhD Student

Alaa Abu Ahmad

Graduate PhD Student

Mila Gelfond

Graduate MSc Student

Mazal Partook

Graduate MSc Student

Nir Cafri

Honours Student

Sol Amara

Special Projects Student

Inbar Kolsky

Special Projects Student

Team

Collaborators

Selected Collaborations

Dr. Chris Bowen, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax
Dr. Cindy Calkin, Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax.
Dr. David Clarke, Division of Neurosurgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax
Dr. Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Clinical TBI Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Dr. Jens Dreier, Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Charite Medical University, Germany.
Dr. Lee Goldstein, Lee Goldstein Research Lab, College of Engineering Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Daniela Kaufer, The Kaufer Lab, Berkeley University, California.
Andrew Malunga, Mfuwe Epilepsy Research Project, Kakumbi Rural Health Centre, Mambwe District, Zambia.
Dr. Theodor Rüber, Translational Neuroimaging Lab, Bonn Medical Center, Germany.
Dr. Merav Shamir, Veterinary Neurobiology Lab, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Dr. Hermona Soreq, Hermona Soreq Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Dr. Annamaria Vezzani, Laboratory Experimental Neurology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Italy.

Visitors

Invited Lectures/Visitors to the Dalhousie University Laboratory

Uwe Heinemann, Charité University, Germany
Jens Dreier, Charité University, Germany
Karl Schoknecht, Charité University, Germany
Daniela Kaufer, Berkeley University, United States.
Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Hermona Soreq, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Merav Shamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Erez Hanael, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Yoash Chassidim, Sapir Academic College, Israel
Ronel Veksler, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Alumni

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BBB Alumni - Past 12 Years

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Guy Bar Klein (2015)
Yoash Chassidim (2015)
Yonatan Serlin (2016)

Graduate Students

Haviv Levi (MSc, 2009)
Jonathan Cohen (MD-PhD, 2010)
Oren Tomkins (MD-PhD, 2010)
Shy Hefetz (MSc, 2010)
Yehudit Gnatek (MSc, 2010)
Yifat Bitan (MSc, 2010)
Chen Tiferet (MA, 2014)
Itali Weissberg (MD-PhD, 2015)
Nitzan Levy (PhD, 2015)
Guy Bar Klein (MSc, 2010)
Lev Pavlovskly (MD-PhD, 2010)
Ayelet Peer (MSc, 2011)
Chen Klein (MSc, 2011)
Lavi Shahar (MSc, 2011)
Yaron David (MD-PhD, 2011)
Etti Ashkenazi (MSc, 2012)
Lyna Kamintsky (MSc, 2012)
Maya Ketzef (PhD, 2012)
Netali Efrat (MSc, 2012)
Guy Bar Klein (PhD, 2014)
Mike Fassler (PhD, 2015)
Ofer Prager (PhD, 2015)
Karl Shoknecht (PhD, 2016)
Dror Rosenback (MMedSci, 2017)
Netta Elazari (MSc, 2017)
Rotem Saar-Ashkenazi (PhD, 2017)
Evyatar Swissa (MSc, 2018)
Svetlana Lublinski (PhD, 2018)
Dan Milikovsky (MD-PhD, 2019)
Ellen Parker (PhD, 2019)
Ronel Veksler (MD-PhD, 2019)
Olumide Adegunna (MSc, 2019)
Yehuda Vazana (PhD, 2019)
Refat Aboghazleh (PhD, 2020)
Lyna Kamintsky (PhD, 2021)
Uri Monsonego (MSc, 2021)
Ayala Tabak (MSc, 2021)
Daniel Zelig (MSc, 2021)
Jonathan Ofer (MSc, 2021)
Evyatar Swissa (PhD, 2022)
Lior Schori (MSc, 2022)

Honours Students

Jillian Newton (BSc, 2018)
Klara Doelle (BSc, 2019)
Griffin Mumby (BSc, 2020)
Isabelle Roach (BSc, 2020)
Alaa-Abu Ahmad (BSc, 2021)
Anna Minarik (BSc, 2022)

Special Projects

Hotjensa Dalipaj (SCIE 4100, 2017)
Naama Mor-Yosef (2017)
Michal Abba-Daleski (2017)
Meital Kooper (2018)
Tal Malka (2018)
Roy Maianski (SCIE 3100, 2018)
Amanda Adams (PSYC 4402, 2019)
Nofar Shemen (2019)
Itamar Burger (2019)
Mazal Tob-Partook (2020)
Baar Alon (2020)
Nir Cafri (2020)
Atalya Harpaz (2020)
Christian Neira (SCIE 3100, 2021)
Trinity Chesley (2022)
Caitlin Mckenna (2022)
Sammy Pham (2022)

Staff

Liron Sheintuch (2014)
Aaron Winters (MD, 2016)
Adiel Charbash (2017)
Dr. Howser Teng Wei Hon (2018)
Santosh Vema (2018)
Noa Hacohen (2019)
Colyn Munn (2020)
Nofar Shemen (2020)
Shahar Feiglin (2021)
Udi Vazana (2021)

Volunteers

Dylan Gates (2017)
Jennifer Kpolu (2018)
Noa Maianski (2018)

Student Exchanges

Summer Program for International Research Internship and Training (SPIRIT)

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