Dr. Galit Lahav
Professor and Department Chair
Harvard Medical School
Education
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Ph.D.,
2001Weizmann Institute of Science
2003
Podcasts
31:23716: What It’s Like to be a Systems Biologist With Dr. Galit Lahav, Harvard Medical School [Main T4C Episode]
Galit Lahav is the Chair of the Department of Systems Biology and a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School. She is known for identifying a range of behaviors in the tumor suppressor protein p53 and uncovering its significance for killing individual cancer cells. She has been recognized globally..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“A big part of my work is to mentor the people in my lab, to help design experiments, and to go through data.”
Best Career Advice
“Behind running the experiment and being productive, there is a human being. You really need to care for that human being beyond data acquired or productivity.”
Career Challenge
“I was a post doc at the Weizmann Institute and I developed this new method to look at a P53 in individual cells. And we had to run videos under the microscope for many hours. And at that time we did not have the equipment to do it. So my mentors suggested to send me to the Rockefeller Institute in New York, to collaborate with another lab there that has that instrument. And so we did that. We felt like it was really critical for my research, but the trip was a disaster, nothing worked.”
Skills
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Systems Biology, Science, Biochemistry, Microscopy, Fluorescence Microscopy, Cell, Genomics, Genetics, Mentoring, Bioinformatics
Professional Interests
Center for Cellular Construction, Brown Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Weizmann Institute of Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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