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Dr. Luxenburg is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Luxenburg completed his PhD studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Profs. Lia Addadi and Benny Geiger, where he studied molecular and structural mechanisms of osteoclast adhesion. For his post-doctoral training, he moved to the laboratory of Prof. Elaine Fuchs at the Rockefeller University in New York, where he studied the roles of the actin cytoskeleton in epidermal development. In October 2013 he returned to Israel and opened his independent research group. Luxenburg is a member of the Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE) “Gene Regulation in Complex Human Disease”


Yonatan Cohen
MD-PhD Student



Chen Luxenburg, PhD
Principal investigator
Idan Lushi
MSc Student
Adnan Mahly
MD-PhD Student
Krishnanand Padmanabhan
PhD Student
Arad Soffer
PhD Student
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Research positions are available
for excellent and highly motivated students and postdocs. Please contact Chen Luxenburg:
Former members
Shaul Raviv, Postdoc, 2016
Eyal Dor-On, Postdoc/lab manager, 2016
Orit Adir, Lab manager, 2017
Irena Vertkin, Lab manager, 2019