Dr. Daniel Zvi Bar awarded tenure!

Dr. Daniel Zvi Bar, PhD, a principal investigator at the School of Dental Medicine, has been awarded tenure!

Dr. Bar earned his bachelor’s degree in physics and biology from Tel Aviv University. He later went on to complete his PhD in Genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the lab of Prof. Gruenbaum. Here, Dr. Bar worked on the nuclear lamina and lifespan regulating pathways in C. elegans. He continued to a visiting-fellow position in the lab of Dr. Francis Collins at the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Institutes of Health, USA. He worked on proximity labeling, focusing on the nuclear lamina in primary human samples. He serves as guest editor of JOVE.Aging is the major risk factor for many prevalent diseases in the developed world, including cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The Bar lab develops new tools and applies them to study the molecular changes that accompany aging. These include using antibodies and various enzymes to label proteins, DNA and RNA and analyze them using high-throughput methods.