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Yadin Dudai (born December 8, 1944), is a neuroscientist, the Sela Chair in Neurobiology and Head of the Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and the Albert and Blanche Willner Family Global Distinguished Visiting Professor of Neural Science at New York University (NYU). He was born in Israel to a family most of which perished in the Holocaust in Lithuania and Poland.

After working as a professional journalist and news editor for a leading Israeli daily, he switched to study biochemistry and genetics, with supplements in modern history, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.He received his Ph.D. in biophysics from the Weizmann Institute of Science and conducted his postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology where he was on Seymour Benzer's team that started the neurogenetic analysis of memory mechanisms.

Over the years he has been a Scholar in Residence at the National Institutes of Health, and a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, the National Institutes of Health, Harvard University, University of Edinburgh, Collège de France, Boston University, and New York University (NYU).

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