Asya Rolls

Asya Rolls
Asya Rolls in 2020
Born
Russia
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materThe Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, Israel
Israel Institute of Technology
Weizmann Institute
Stanford University
Known forBrain representation and control of immunity and cancer
Scientific career
FieldsPsychoneuroimmunology
InstitutionsTel Aviv University
Doctoral advisorMichal Schwartz[1] Ofer Lider[1]
Websiterolls.net.technion.ac.il Edit this at Wikidata

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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