Sagiv Shifman

Between 2017 and 2021, he served as the head of the genetics teaching program at the Hebrew University, and then as the head of the department.

In 2013, he won the Krill Prize from the Wolf Foundation for excellence in scientific research.

Sagiv Shifman (born August 2, 1971) is an Israeli scientist, professor in the field of neurogenetics at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds the Arnold and Bess Zeldich Ungerman chair in Neurobiology.

Sagiv Shifman was born in Jerusalem in 1971 to Rachel and Pinhas Shifman. He completed all his degrees at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctorate was under the guidance of Ariel Darvasi in the genetics of complex traits, focusing on the genetic mapping of schizophrenia. In 2004 he started post-doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, in Jonathan Flint's laboratory, where he worked on genetic mapping in mice and genetics of neuroticism in humans. In 2008 he returned to Israel and founded the Neurogenetics Research Laboratory at the Department of Genetics, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2015 he was a visiting professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) for about a year.