Alon Monsonego is a Full Professor at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He holds the Lawrence W. and Marie Feldman Chair in Neurophysiology in the Faculty of Health Sciences. He is a member of the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev and Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell research center. His laboratory explores mechanisms of immune system aging, autoimmunity and brain-immune interactions, and their impact on immunity and neurodegeneration such as occurring in Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and stroke. Research in the lab is carried in animal models as well as in human subjects affected with neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases.