Ahuva Nissim, Ph.D.

Prof in Antibody and Therapeutic Engineering at Queen Mary University

Speaker

Ahuva Nissim graduated in Molecular Immunology in 1992 from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and was trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering in Cambridge until 1995. She built phage display semi-synthetic human antibody library, the so call ‘Nissim’ library which has been used worldwide. Her current studies at Queen Mary University are interdisciplinary and involve autoimmune diseases and oncology. Mostly focusing on the mechanisms that lead to the formation of disease tissue-specific neoepitopes and their exploitation for novel disease - and tissue-specific, diagnosis and targeted treatment.