Ron Orbach

Ron Orbach is a Senior Lecturer at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, where he established the Orbach Lab in 2021. His research focuses on understanding how cilia achieve their remarkable structural organization, stability, and function, with particular emphasis on axonemal microtubules and microtubule inner proteins.

Ron received his PhD in Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Yale University, supported by EMBO and HFSP fellowships. During his postdoctoral work, he shifted his research focus to cytoskeletal biology and cilia, demonstrating that axonemal tubulin has distinct properties that contribute to the exceptional stability of cilia.

The Orbach Lab combines biochemical reconstitution, quantitative microscopy, structural biology, and genetic approaches to investigate how the molecular composition of ciliary microtubules determines their organization, dynamics, and function. Ron also serves as Co-Head of the MD-PhD Program in Medicine and Medical Sciences at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine.