Prof. Claude Brodski obtained his M.D. degree from the Technical University Munich. He performed the work for his doctoral thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology studying the influence of neurotrophic factors on transmitter phenotype differentiation. As a post-doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, he investigated the genetic mechanisms directing the development and functions of dopaminergic and serotonergic neurons in the CNS. Currently, he is an​ Associate Professor at the Medical Faculty of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and head of the Laboratory for Molecular and Translational Neuroscience​. Dr. Brodski is a past and present member of editorial boards of several journals including Nature Scientific Reports, Frontiers​ in​ Molecular Biosciences, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology and Frontiers in Bioengeneering and Biotechnology.