Dr. Amos Toren
Dr. Amos Toren is the head of the Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology and the head of the Stem Cell Transplant Unit.
Dr. Toren is a senior lecturer in Sackler School of Medicine. He is a specialist in Pediatrics, General Hematology and Pediatric Hemato-Oncology. His research interests include bone-marrow transplantation and the genetics of hereditary hematological disorders, mainly genetic syndromes characterized by macrothrombocytopenias. In addition, his research includes the characterization of stem cells derived from different sources like cord blood, bone marrow and peripheral blood. He is also a part of a group that studies apoptosis in hematologic malignancies and genes that are activated by P53.