Albert Pinhasov

Albert Pinhasov was born in 1972 in Namangan

Albert Pinhasov was born on 9 February 1972 in Namangan, Uzbekistan. From 1990 to 1994 he studied at the Gorky Academy of Medicine in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

He immigrated to Israel in 1994 and continued his studies at Tel Aviv University. He earned a master's degree there in 1998 and a PhD in molecular biology and clinical biochemistry in 2002, under Illana Gozes. From 2002 to 2004 he did postdoctoral work at Johnson & Johnson in the United States, developing drugs for neurodegenerative diseases.

In 2005 he joined the Department of Molecular Biology at Ariel University and headed it from 2008 to 2014. He was Vice President and Dean for Research and Development from 2014 to 2020. In 2020 the university Senate elected him Rector, succeeding Michael Zinigrad.

His research deals with the molecular mechanisms of mental disorders and their link to stress sensitivity. His lab bred a mouse model with dominant and submissive traits, used to study stress, inflammation, aging and mental disorders. He also helped found a brain research center and a pre-medical program at Ariel.

He received honorary professor titles from Astana Medical University in 2023 and from a university in Poltava, Ukraine, in 2025. He is married to Olga, has 3 children and lives in Etz Efraim.