Peleg Hasson, Ph.D., is associate professor in the Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology and head of the tissue development laboratory at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where he has been since 2010. His work focuses on two main systems, the skeletal muscle and the large vessels of our body — the aorta and its main branches. Dr. Hasson received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He continued his postdoctoral studies at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, which is part of the United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council.