Asya Rolls | |
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Born | Russia |
Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | The Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, Israel Israel Institute of Technology Weizmann Institute Stanford University |
Known for | Brain representation and control of immunity and cancer |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychoneuroimmunology |
Institutions | Tel Aviv University |
Doctoral advisor | Michal Schwartz[1] Ofer Lider[1] |
Website | rolls |
Asya Rolls is an Israeli psychoneuroimmunologist and International Howard Hughes Medical Institute- Wellcome trust reseracher (2018-2023). She is a Professor at the Faculty of Life Scielces in Tel Aviv University. Until 2024, she was a Professor at the Rappaport medical school at the Israel Institute of Technology. Rolls leads a lab that explores how the nervous system affects immune responses and thus physical health. Her recent work has highlighted how the brain's reward system is implicated in the placebo response and how brain-immune interactions can be harnessed to find and destroy tumors.[2][3]
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