Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Jamal Zidan

Jamal Zidan
Director, Oncology Institute, Ziv Medical Center Clinical Professor, Research Faculty
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Biography

Prof. Jamal Zidan earned his doctorate in medicine (MD) at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. His speciality is Oncology. He is a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Safed, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Head of Oncology Division at Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Israel. Prof. Zidan has over 170 publications. He has received many honors as: "Eminent Scientist & Outstanding Scholar of the Year 2001" International award of IRPC; International Research Promotion Council Asia-Pacific Chapter, World Scientists Forum International Award, Gold Medal. His main research interesting is molecular biomarkers, targeting therapy,breast cancer and other issues in cancer.

Research Interest

Thyroid cancer: Use of radioactive iodine in diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of thyroid cancer, Development of new methods for calculation of effective I131 doses Basic research in biological targeting therapy: Detection of HER-2, EGFR, K-RAS in diverse tumors and its uses both as a prognostic factor and as a means of treatment with monoclonal antibodies (in collaboration with the Department of Pathology), Breast cancer: Epidemiology, diagnosis, medical treatment and radiotherapy.