Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna

Dr. Hanna is a Professor of a Stem Cell Biology and Synthetic Embryology in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. His research focuses on embryonic stem cell biology, ex utero embryogenesis, synthetic embryo and developmental models, with the goal of advancing treatments for infertility and degenerative diseases. Hanna is known for leading the creation of the first authentic integrated and complete mouse and human stem-cell-based embryo models resembling embryos up to fourteen days after fertilization and beyond. He was an executive board member of the Israel Society for Stem Cell Research until 2018. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.