ICRF MONTREAL FUNDED FELLOWS
2025

ICRF MONTREAL FUNDED FELLOWS
2025

POST DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Dr. Gabriel Levin

**Institution:** Jewish General Hospital - Lady Davis Institute
**Research focus**: Gynecologic oncology
**Supervising Physician:** Dr. Walter Gotlieb
*3-year subsidy (2022-2025)
**WATCH VIDEO:** Meet Dr. Gabriel Levin

Dr. Yossi Tzur

**Institution:** Jewish General Hospital - Lady Davis Institute
**Research Focus:** Obstetrics & Gynecology
**Supervising Physician:** Dr. Walter Gotlieb
*3-year subsidy (2023-2026)
**WATCH VIDEO:** Meet Dr. Yossi Tzur

Dr. AULA ASALI

**Institution:** Jewish General Hospital - Lady Davis Institute
**Research Focus:** Ovarian Clear Cell Carcinoma
**Supervising Physician:** Dr. Walter Gotlieb
*3-year subsidy (2024-2027)

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AMATZIA GANTZ

McGill University Health Centre
**Research Focus**: Liver cancer
**Supervising Physician**: Dr. Peter Metrakos
*3-year subsidy (2024-2027)

PAST icrf montreal FELLOWS

Institution: McGill University Health Centre
Research Focus: Endocrinology & Breast Cancer
Supervising Physicians: Dr. Richard Kremer & Dr. Ami Grunbaum
*2-year subsidy completed in 2025
Institution: Jewish General Hospital
Research focus: Hematology
Supervising Physicians: Dr. Sarit Assoulin
WATCH VIDEO: Meet Dr. Matarasso
*3-year subsidy completed in 2025
Institution: McGill University Health Centre
Research Focus: Liver cancer
Supervising Physician: Dr. Peter Metrakos
*3-year subsidy completed in 2024
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Institution: CHU Sainte-Justine, in collaboration with the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
Research Focus: Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Supervising Physicians: Dr. Catherine Goudie & Dr. Sonia Cellot
*1-year subsidy completed in 2024
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Jewish General Hospital
Research focus: Ovarian cancer
Supervising Physicians: Dr. Walter Gotlieb & Dr. Shannon Salvador
*3-year subsidy completed in 2024
Dr. James Tankel, Montreal General Hospital (2021-2023) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Lorenzo Ferri
Dr. Merav Rokah, Montreal General Hospital (2021-2023) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Jonathan Spicer
Dr. Alon Wachtel, MUHC (2021-2023) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Sender Lieberman
Dr. Emad Matanes, Jewish General Hospital (2019-2022) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Grace Younes, MUHC (2018-2020) -
Supervising Physicians: Dr. Hugh Clarke & Dr. Togas Tulandi
Dr. Noam Olshinka, Hospital Maisonneuve-Rosemont - Supervising Physician: Dr. Marc Isler
Dr. Yehonathan Nevo, Montreal General Hospital - Supervising Physician: Dr. Lorenzo Ferri
Dr. Amit Katz, Montreal General Hospital - Supervising Physician: Dr. Lorenzo Ferri
Dr. Oded Raban, Jewish General Hospital (2018-2021)
Supervising Physician: Dr. Alexandre Orthwein
Dr. Liron Kogan, Jewish General Hospital (2016) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Ilan Bruchim, Jewish General Hospital - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Chana Achache, MUHC - Supervising Physicians: Dr. Hugh Clarke & Dr. Hananel Holzer
Dr. David Cheishvilli, Jewish General Hospital (2011-2013) - Dr. Moshe Szyf
Dr. Esther Piura, Jewish General Hospital (2007-2009) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Tamar Perry, Jewish General Hospital - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Alex Rabinovitch, Jewish General Hospital (2012 - 2014) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Roy Kessous, Jewish General Hospital (2016-2018) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Adi Klil-Drori, Jewish General Hospital (2016-2017) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Sarit Assouline
Dr. Ido Laskov, Jewish General Hospital - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Amit Dotan, Montreal General Hospital (2016-2017) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Nada Jabado
Dr. Idit Wechsberg, Jewish General Hospital (2014-2015) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Elliot Mitmaker
Dr. Ari Reiss, Jewish General Hospital (2010-2013) - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Nimrod Blank, Jewish General Hospital - Supervising Physician:
Dr. Rotem Ayalon, Jewish General Hospital - Supervising Physician: Dr. Dan Decklebaum
Dr. Zvi Vaknin, Jewish General Hospital - Supervising Physician: Dr. Walter Gotlieb
Dr. Eli Kakiashvili, Jewish General Hospital

Israel GRANT AWARD RECIPIENTS

DIRECT FUNDING BY THE MONTREAL CHAPTER

Yosef Buganim, PHD

Associate Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ICRF Project Grant focusing on Breast Cancer and Cancer Stem Cells
* 3-year subsidy (2024-2027)
**Research Title**: Exploring how Extraembryonic-like Epigenetic State Promotes Cancer Development
*https://www.icrfonline.org/grant/yossi-buganim-phd/*

Dr. Shahar Frankel with child patient — Shahar Frenkel, MD, PhD

Head of the Ocular Oncology Unit,
Hadassah Medical Center
ICRF Project Grant Exploring Pediatric Eye Cancer
*3-year subsidy (2024-2027)
**Research Focus:** Children with retinoblastoma and other rare eye cancers
**WATCH VIDEO**
*www.icrfonline.org/grant/shahar-frenkel-md-phd/*

Israeli Yaron Carmi — Yaron Carmi, PhD

Tel Aviv University
**Research Title**:
Identifying the mechanisms underlying melanoma relapse following curative surgery.
*3-year subsidy completed in 2023
*https://www.icrfonline.org/grant/yaron-carmi-phd/*

Dr Nir London (Israel) — Nir London, PhD

Weizmann Institute of Science
**Research Title:**
Targeting melanoma with covalent drugs.
*3-year subsidy completed in 2022
*https://www.icrfonline.org/grant/nir-london-phd/*

Rotem Rubinstein, PhD

Tel Aviv University
**Research Title:**
Structural Biology of VISTA - an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor.
*3-year subsidy completed in 2022
*https://www.icrfonline.org/grant/rotem-rubinstein-phd/*

To consult the complete list of ICRF Grant Recipients in Israel, click here.