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Shimon Slavin, MD

Shimon Slavin, MD
Deputy Chairman

Shimon Slavin, MD
Professor of Medicine
Medical & Scientific Director
International Center for Cell Therapy & Cancer Immunotherapy (CTCI)

Dr. Slavin serves as the Medical & Scientific Director of the newly established International Center for Cell Therapy & Cancer Immunotherapy(CTCI) at Top Ichilov at the Weizman Center, Tel Aviv Medical Complex. The center attracts patients with cancer and other diseases treatable by stem cells or immunotherapy and training medical teams from all over the world. More recently, the center is also involved in developing new approaches for the use of autologous bone marrow derived mesenchymal stromal cells for regenerative medicine, attempting to repair cartilage and regeneration of bones and in the near future also applying stem cell therapy for experimental treatment of cardiovascular disorders and repair of neurological disorders including lower motor neuron diseases and multiple sclerosis in addition to immune regulation of other autoimmune disease.

Dr. Slavin is an honorary member of the Argentinian Academy of Science and has been awarded many international awards for medical achievements. Slavin served until recently as the Medical Director of Cancer Immunotherapy at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) based in Chicago. He is the author of 650 scientific publications and four books. In 2002 his published paper describing curing a three-year-old bubble baby with cellular therapy took the world by storm. It hasn't been matched to this day.

In 1978, Dr. Slavin opened Israel's first bone marrow transplantation (BMT) unit, officially recognized as Israel's National Bone Marrow Transplantation Center. For the past 30 years he served as the Director of The Department of Stem Cell Transplantation & Cancer Immunotherapy of the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Dr. Slavin has served as a visiting professor at SouthWestern University of Dallas at Texas and the University of Minneapolis at Minnesota. He has also helped establish many transplant centers worldwide.

Upon graduating from Hadassah Hebrew University School of Medicine in Jerusalem in 1967 he served as the doctor of the Frogman Unit in the Israeli Navy until 1970. He specialized in internal medicine (1970-1975) and subsequently specialized in clinical immunology at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California and the Bone Marrow Transplant Center at the Fred Hutchinson's Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington for three years.

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