Ofer Binah's Biography

Ofer Binah, Professor, Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Prof. Ofer Binah is at the Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine since 1982. Ofer Binah is a cardiac physiologist working for the past 34 years on research topics related to cardiac electrophysiology, mechanics and signaling pathways. Since 2001 Binah have investigated the functional properties of human embryonic stem cells-derived cardiomyocytes and have published few papers in this area. Several years ago, Binah has begun investigating iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes generated from both dermal fibroblasts and keratinocytes, from healthy volunteers and patients with inherited cardiac pathologies, such as CPVT, laminopathy and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.