Shabat team

Doron Shabat studied chemistry at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology between 1987 and 1990. After obtaining his B.Sc. degree, he continued toward his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Ehud Keinan in the field of catalytic antibodies. Upon the completion of his Ph.D. thesis in 1997, he joined a group led by Profs. Richard A. Lerner and Carlos F. Barbas, III at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California as a postdoctoral fellow. There, he continued to work in the area of catalytic antibodies. In 2000, he returned to Israel to start his independent career in the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University as a senior lecturer. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2005 and to full professor in 2008. His research is focused in bioorganic chemistry with particular interests in self-immolative molecular systems, long-wavelength fluorescent dyes for in vivo imaging and chemiluminescence luminophores that act in aqueous environment. Prof. Shabat has received several prestigious awards, including the ICS Prize for Outstanding Young Chemist (2005), the Juludan Research Prize (2005), the ICS-Adama Prize for Technological Innovation (2018), the Kolthoff Prize (2019), and the ICS Prize for Outstanding Chemist (2020). He is the author and coauthor of over 130 peer-review publications. Since 2016, he is holding the Emerico Letay Chair of Chemical Processes.

Sachin Popat Gholap was born in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India. He was awarded a B.Sc. Chemistry (2010) and an M.Sc. Organic Chemistry (2012) from University of Pune, India. After completing his M.Sc. in 2012, he worked as a project assistant under the supervision of Dr. C. V. Ramana in the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. He then joined the group of Prof. Rodney A. Fernandes in the Department of Chemistry, IIT-Bombay, India with a CSIR research fellowship in January 2013 and obtained his Ph.D. in September 2018 (Thesis title: « Synthetic studies on (–)-thysanone, 2,3-dihydropyranones and development of Fischer carbene pentannulation and chemoselective silyl ether deprotection). In April 2019, he joined the research group of Prof. Doron Shabat as an postdoctoral associate in Tel Aviv university (Tel Aviv, Israel), where he works on the synthesis of novel chemiluminescent probes.

M. Sc. Sara Gutkin was born in Bet Shemesh, Israel, and studied her Bachelor and Master degree in chemistry at Tel Aviv University (2015-2020). She completed her M. Sc. thesis in the group of Prof. Doron Shabat, working on multi-wavelength chemiluminescence analysis and synthesis of advanced chemiluminescent probes. In 2020, she continued to her PhD in the same group.