Elazar Zelzer

Elazar Zelzer completed his bachelor's and master's degrees at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and went on to receive his Ph.D. in 1999 in molecular genetics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Bjorn Olsen's lab at Harvard Medical School from 1999 to 2004, during which he studied bone development. He returned to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in 2004, where he was appointed Senior Scientist in the Department of Molecular Genetics. His research group's interest lies in skeletogenesis, and they focus specifically on two different aspects of skeletal development using advanced murine research techniques; the first, looking at the development of the musculoskeletal system, and the second, at the complex interactions between the developing skeleton and the vasculature.