Guy Katz, MD, PhD

Dr. Guy Katz, is a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Anil K. Sood at the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Katz earned his MD, and completed a PhD at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He got his PhD from the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, on the subject of the physiological mechanism and potential treatments for a lethal hereditary heart disease. Dr. Katz has completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology from the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer hospital, Israel, in 2018.

Dr. Katz has received several awards during his doctoral research years, among them, The Jan J. Kellerman Young Investigator in Cardiology Award and The Foulkes Foundation Fellowships from the Israel Science Academy. Since 2013 Dr. Katz is a member of the “Talpiot” excellence program for physicians/scientists, at the Sheba Medical Center. His research project objective is to determine the therapeutic potential of modulating the level of specific microRNAs in ovarian cancer by utilizing a unique nano-technology approach.