Organizing Committee Member
Jacob Pitcovski
Professor
Migal Galilee Technology Center, Kiryat Shmona
Israel
Biography
Jacob Pitcovski graduated the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His postdoctoral position was at the Biochemistry department at ISU, USA. Since 1990, head of the Vaccine development department in MIGAL research institute and Professor at Tel Hai academic college, teaching at the departments of Biotechnology and the animal science courses in Immunology, Virology and Vaccine development. The research in the lab is in three major topics within the discipline of immunology: Vaccine development, Immune system modulators and Cancer immunotherapy. All the studies of the laboratory are in collaboration with scientists from universities, governmental institutes, vaccine producers and scientists from MIGAL.
Research Area
1. Oral delivery of subunit vaccines 2. A bioinformatics general approach for determination of updated representatives for avian influenza vaccines