Dr. Eran Blacher is an Assistant professor in the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He completed a B.Sc. (summa cum laude) in life sciences and a PhD (summa cum laude) in neuroimmunology in the direct PhD tract for outstanding students of Tel-Aviv University. He did his first postdoctoral position in microbiome-brain interface at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, where he was the first to study the role of the microbiome–gut–brain axis in the context of neurodegenerative diseases. He conducted a second postdoctoral training as a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in Neurology at Stanford University, where he studied maladaptive metabolism in aged immune cells and the gut–brain axis in stroke and aging. Eran studies the gut–brain communication in aging and neurological disorders. By integrating novel imaging methods, multi-omics techniques, advanced computational analyses, and clinical observations, he creates an interactive merging point between the realms of neuroscience, immunology, microbiome, and metabolism. Eran is an Azrieli Foundation Scholar and a NOSTER & Science Microbiome Grand Prize awardee.
