Esther Silberberg , BSc

Esther Silberberg is a research scientist who is exploring the pathobiome of the Parkinson’s brain and its immune underpinnings. Her immune and molecular genetic roots from her biomedical B.Sc at Haifa University, and her research assistant position at the Weizmann Institute of Science, led her to focus her attention on the intersection between the two, otherwise known as the Pathogen Hypothesis of Neurodegeneration. 

Esther is working on establishing a definitive correlation between viral infection and Parkinson's Disease pathogenesis, and plans on diving deep into the causative mechanisms of this correlation. Given the widely known idiom “knowing the sickness is half the cure”, she hopes to uncover potential mechanisms of manipulating this process.