Prof. Moshe Gavish is a Professor at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. He holds a BSc in Biology (1971) and an MSc in Biochemistry (1973) from the Hebrew University. He earned his PhD in Chemical Immunology (1978) from the Weizmann Institute of Science, followed by a postdoctoral at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. His main field of research is the 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO), demonstrating the role of this protein in cell proliferation, steroid synthesis, apoptosis, cancer, inflammation, and neurodegeneration.