I am a Medical Research Fellow at Every Cure, where we are identifying drug repurposing opportunities for patients in need. My research experience includes gastrointestinal diseases, metabolism, microphysiological systems for disease modeling and extracellular matrix biology. I believe that we need to strive to make the most of the vast body of knowledge we have on human physiology to develop and find more treatments for more people.

I am also passionate about science communication and view it as an inseparable part of a scientist's role in society. Currently, I serve as the Scientific Director, and regularly write for, the non-profit organization "Little, Big Science", which is one of Israel's most popular science communication platforms.

Previously, I was a postdoc at MIT in the labs of Brad Pentelute and Manolis Kellis, and at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University in Don Ingber's lab, working on organs-on-chips and other 3D human cell culture models for a variety of diseases. I received my PhD and my MSc from the Weizmann Institute of Science, where I was advised by Irit Sagi. Prior to that, I received my BSc in Biology and Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Email: eleekes@gmail.com