Dr. Eli Lewis, a world-renowned expert on diabetes, is the incumbent of the BGU Ilse Katz Career Development Chair in Health Sciences Research.

His research focuses on improving the transplantation and transplantation therapy and insulin of insulin-producing cells in diabetic patients.

He recently discovered a common, easily accessible drug that can protect transplanted cells, which reverse diabetes and restore glucose control in diabetic patients.

Dr. Lewis has been awarded prestigious research grants from several foundations, including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Israeli Science Foundation.