Ehud Gazit

Ehud Gazit (Hebrew: אהוד גזית; Russian: Эхуд Газит; Chinese: 以笏) is an Israeli biochemist, biophysicist and nanotechnologist.

[1] He was recently elected as the 2023 International Solvey Chair in Chemistry, a position that was previously held by 15 of the top world scientists including three Nobel laureates.

Prior to his appointment as vice president, Gazit served in different academic and administrative positions at Tel Aviv University, including the Head of The Chemistry-Biology double major track, a member of the University Committee for Appointments and Promotions, the Head of the Academic Committee of the Ilona Rich Institute for Nano-Biology and Nano-Biotechnology, and a member of the managing board of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

(summa cum laude) after completing his studies at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University, and his Ph.D. (with highest distinction) as a Clore Fellow at the Department of Membrane Research and Biophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science in 1997.

He has been a faculty member at Tel Aviv University since 2000, after completing his postdoctoral studies as a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also had held a visiting appointment (2002–2011).

This achievement is a far-reaching extension of the concept of protein aggregation to include a significantly larger class of biomolecules that form generic, thermodynamically favorable, nano-architectures of a notable pathological role.

His work resulted in the identification of minimal recognition elements that facilitate the assembly of amyloid fibrils and identified novel ways to inhibit this process.