Abraham Olivier Samson

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Abraham Olivier Samson is head of the "Drug Discovery Lab" and professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University.[1]

Research[edit]

He focuses on the development of bioinformatics and drug discovery[2]. Samson received his bachelor's degree in medical chemistry from Bar-Ilan University, his master's degree and doctorate in structural biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science|Weizmann Institute. He has received honors for his work[3] and has published over 50 scientific articles as well as several books, and book chapters.[4][5] Samson joined the Faculty of Medicine in 2011 as one of the founding researchers,[6][7] after spending his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine, under the direction of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Michael Levitt.[8]. Recently, he gave a talk in Spanish[9]

Samson develops potential drug therapies against Alzheimer's disease, and has shown promising candidates, such as arginine[10], and Norvaline[11].

Community[edit]

Abraham Samson was president of the Hazvi Israel Synagogue, Jerusalem. In addition, he curates liturgical tunes on the YouTube channel, Machsike Hadas Tunes & Melodies of the community, Machzike Hadas[12].

Linear A decipherment[edit]

Samson is a proponent of Linear A being early greek, and has suggested the following translation of the Libation Formula:[13]

References[edit]

  1. "Abraham O. Samson". scholar.google.co.il.
  2. http://odem.md.biu.ac.il
  3. "Scientific Activities: Scholarship Awards". www.weizmann.ac.il.
  4. http://odem.md.biu.ac.il/publications.html
  5. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abraham-Samson
  6. "Samson Avraham | The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine". medicine.biu.ac.il.
  7. http://research.md.biu.ac.il/avraham-samson/
  8. "Alumni". Michael Levitt Lab.
  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWjU356VdqQ
  10. Fonar, Gennadiy, Polis, Baruh, Meirson, Tomer, Maltsev, Alexander, Elliott, Evan and Samson, Abraham O.. "Intracerebroventricular administration of L-arginine improves spatial memory acquisition in triple transgenic mice via reduction of oxidative stress and apoptosis" Translational Neuroscience, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018, pp. 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1515/tnsci-2018-0009
  11. Polis, B., Srikanth, K.D., Elliott, E. et al. L-Norvaline Reverses Cognitive Decline and Synaptic Loss in a Murine Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Neurotherapeutics 15, 1036–1054 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13311-018-0669-5
  12. https://www.machsikehadas.dk/
  13. Samson, A. Olivier (August 19, 2021). "Multiple Sequence Alignment of Libation Formulae Suggest Linear a is Minoan-Greek" – via papers.ssrn.com.

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