Lipids and Cellular Membranes in Amyloid Diseases

This first book on the subject focuses on basic biochemical and biophysical facts, figures and methods, so as to be universally suited to the needs of basic and applied researchers in the biochemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical fields. As a result, the reader is brought up to date on the latest studies and models of amyloid formation.

Currently at the department of Chemistry at Ben Gurion University, Israel, Raz Jelinek obtained his BSc in chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Cancer Research Institute post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Jelinek has over 90 scientific publications and 10 patents to his name, and has received several scientific awards, including the Roger-Siegel-Brown Award of the Israeli Academy of Science and the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award of the National Institutes of Health, USA.