Elon PrasProf. Elon Pras, MD, PhD Genetics Research serves as an Associate Professor at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and is actively involved in teaching medical, MSc and PhD students. Prof. Pras serves as a Member of Scientific Advisor Board of PsoriasisDX, LLC; DermaGenoma,;Inc and HairDX, LLC. He is the Director of the Institute of Human Genetics at the Sheva Medical Center, Israel. The Institute is the largest of its kind in the Middle East and it performs thousands of clinical diagnostic genetic testing each month. The Institute is also highly dedicated to science and research. After completing residency in internal medicine, he joined a four year a fellowship program in rheumatology and molecular genetics at the National Institutes of Health. He continued with a second fellowship in clinical genetics which he finished in 2001. Prof. Pras is an expert in positional cloning, a technique which is used to identify genes that cause genetic diseases. During the last 10 years, he was involved in the identification of the genes that cause familial Mediterranean fever, cystinuria, cardiac arrhythmias, familial cataract, autosomal dominant hypotrichosis simplex and autosomal recessive monilethrix. Prof. Pras is graduated from medical school at the Beer Sheba University in 1985. He has Ph.D in Genetics Research Read More Read Less