Publications: 

53 publications including 6 review articles and chapters in books. 7 pending patents, mostly PCT applications currently at the National Phase in the US, Europe, Japan, India, and Israel.

Awards: 

The Dean Award for Outsdtanding B.Sc. Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1989, 1990, 1991; Ciba Foundation Bursary, 1994; Clore Foundation Program Doctoral Scholarship, 1994-1997; Certificate of Excellence for Students in High Education Institutes, awarded by The Committee of Education of the Knesset (the Israeli parliament), 1997; The John F. Kennedy Award, Weizmann Institute of Science (the most prestigious award reserved by the Feinberg Graduate School for the best students of each year’s class), 1997; EMBO Long Term Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997-1998; Human Frontiers Science Program Long Term Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998-2000; Finalist, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech & Science Prize for Young Scientists; 1998, Landau Research Award, Miphal Hapais Fund,1999; 2002-2003; Dan David Scholarship Award, 2002-2003.

Selected publications:

1. Azriel, R. and Gazit, E. Analysis of the Structural and Functional Elements of the Minimal Active Fragment of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP) (2001) J Biol Chem 276, 34156-34161.

2. Gazit, E. A Possible Role for pi-Stacking in the Self-Assembly of Amyloid Fibrils. (2002) FASEB J 16, 77-83.

3. Reches, M., and Gazit, E. Casting Metal Nanowires within Discrete Self-Assembled Peptide Nanotubes. (2003) Science 300, 625-627.

4. Cherny I., and Gazit, E. The YefM Antitoxin Defines a Family of Natively Unfolded Proteins: Implications as a Novel Antibacterial Target. (2004) J Biol Chem 279, 8252-8261.

5. Porat, Y., Kolusheva, S., Jelinek, R., and Gazit, E. The Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Forms Transient Membrane-Active Prefibrillar Assemblies. Biochemistry (2003) 42, 10971-10977. (Highlighted in press-release, American Chemical Society).

6. Reches, M., and Gazit, E. Formation of Closed-Cage Nanostructures by Self-Assembly of Aromatic Dipeptides. (2004) Nano Lett 4, 581-585.

7. Gilead, S. and Gazit, E. Inhibition of Amyloid Fibril Formation by Peptide Analogues Modified with a-Aminoisobutyric Acid. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl  (2004) 43, 4041-4044 (selected as “Hot Paper”a press-release ,Wiley-VCH).

8. Porat, Y., Mazor, Y., Efrat, S. and Gazit, E. (2004) Inhibition of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Fibril Formation: A Possible Role for Hetero-Aromatic Interactions. (2004) Biochemistry 43, 14454-14462.

9. Tsai, H-H., Reches, M., Tsai, C-J., Gunasekaran, K., Gazit, E. and Nussinov, R. Energy landscape of amyloidogenic peptide oligomerization by parallel-tempering molecular dynamics simulation: Significant role of Asn ladder. (2005) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102, 8174-8179.

10. Yemini, M., Reches, M., Rishpon, J., and Gazit, E. Novel Electrochemical Biosensing Platform Using Self-Assembled Peptide Nanotubes. (2005) Nano Lett 5, 183-186. (Reviewed in an editorial report:  Anal Chem (2005) 77, 47A).

11. Cherny, I., Rockah, L., and Gazit, E. The YoeB toxin is a folded protein that forms a physical complex with the unfolded YefM antitoxin: Implications for a structural-based differential stability of toxin-antitoxin systems. (2005) J Biol Chem 280, 30063-30072.

12. Cherny, I., Rockah, L., Levy-Nissenbaum, O., Gophna, U., Ron, E. Z., and Gazit, E. The Formation of Curli Amyloid Fibrils is Mediated by Prion-like Peptide Repeats. (2005) J Mol Biol 352, 245-252.