Scholar Profile
Inbal Wortzel did her PhD at Weizmann Institute of Science’s Department of Biological Regulation, where she focused on structural changes in the Golgi apparatus, a body within the cell.
Her postdoc in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Meyer Cancer Center dealt with extracellular vesicles (EVs), which serve as mediators of intercellular communication and metastasis. She demonstrated that the presence of EV-chromatin inhibits metastatic progression by activating the immune system.
At Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Dr. Wortzel asks: What specific mechanisms underlie the functional roles exerted by EV-DNA? She hopes eventually to unlock new strategies for harnessing the immune system to fight cancer.
