Nadav Ahituv

Nadav Ahituv (Hebrew: נדב אחיטוב) is the Director for the Institute for Human Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco (USCF). He is also a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and leads the Ahituv Lab at University of California, San Francisco (USCF).

Early life and education Ahituv received his PhD with distinction in human genetics from Tel-Aviv University, where he worked on hereditary hearing loss. and adipose manipulation transplantation (AMT) that engineers fat cells and implants them for therapeutic benefits.

The Ahituv Lab investigates gene regulatory elements and their relationship to human diversity and disease. The lab is one of the developers of massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) that allow for high-throughput functional characterization of gene regulatory elements.

Awards and honors In 2014, Ahituv received the ASCPT Leon I. Goldberg young investigator award from The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.