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Although neurobiologist Oded Rechavi comes from a family of doctors and researchers, it was not his original plan to go into science. “It wasn’t something that I had thought about,” he tells The Scientist. Instead, he went to Paris after high school to train as an artist, exhibited his work in his home country of Israel, and completed mandatory army service before enrolling at Tel Aviv University. “I still didn’t know exactly what I’d do, whether I’d be an artist or something else,” he says.
At university, Rechavi became interested in studying psychology, philosophy, and biology—specifically, the biology of the brain, which fascinated him. He earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience in 2006 and then went on to do a PhD, also at Tel Aviv. For his graduate work, he pivoted his focus to immune cells and found that they can exchange macromolecules such as ...
