Israel Nissan

Israel Nissan completed his Ph.D. in clinical microbiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003 and continued for a post-doctorate fellowship at the Hebrew University, in the research of mad cow disease. In 2004 Dr. Nissan joined the Israeli Ministry of Health and since then has fulfilled various positions including Director of the Regional Public Health Laboratory Southern District (2004-2008) and Deputy-director of the Central Laboratories, Jerusalem (2008-2013). Between 2013-2015 he served as a Research Associate at the Koret School for Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2015 he has served as the Head of the Chlamydia National Reference Laboratory and since 2018, he also served as the manager of a Next Generation Sequencing Unit. During the years 2020-2023, as part of the national preparation for the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Nissan established and managed a SARS-CoV-2 testing laboratory and his NGS unit participated in intensive SARS-CoV-2 sequencing as part of the National Consortium for SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing.