Dr. Aharon Helman
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Studying adaptive mechanisms to nutritional challenges, with the focus on insulin-secreting beta cells
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Head of Institute: Prof. Ido Braslavsky
Administrative manager: Rakefet Kalev
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Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition,
Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Herzl 229, Rehovot 7610001, ISRAEL
Tel: +972 - (0)8-9489385
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Email Address: rakefetk@savion.huji.ac.il
Dr. Aharon Helman
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My lab studies how changes in the nutritional environment dictate cellular and organ adaptation, with a focus on beta cells. Specifically, we dissect the metabolic and functional heterogeneity of beta cells in sensing and responding to nutrients and how metabolic stress during aging and diabetes affects beta cell function. In addition, using human stem cell-derived beta cells we conduct high-throughput chemical and metabolic approaches to determine key regulators of human beta cell function
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