Professor Lina Basel-Vanagaite
Pediatric geneticist. Lina Basel-Vanagaite is a pediatric geneticist known in Israel and abroad, who diagnoses and treats hereditary pathology in children and adolescents.
Lina Basel graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University, the oldest and largest higher education institution in Lithuania. After moving to Israel she did postgraduate studies in the department of human genetics at Tel Aviv University, followed by a doctoral dissertation defense.
Next came clinical specializations in pediatrics and genetics at Schneider Children's Medical Center and Rabin Medical Center.
Professor Basel is a member of the American and European societies of human genetics and the Israeli Association of Medical Genetics.
Currently Lina Basel heads the genetics department of Schneider Children's Medical Center and at the same time works at the Raphael Recanati Genetics Institute, part of the Rabin multidisciplinary medical center.
Professor Basel is a very successful and recognized research scientist. She has discovered 14 new genetic syndromes and described the genes responsible for these pathologies.
The subject of Lina Basel's clinical and research work is neurogenetic diseases, as well as genetic forms of intellectual disability and autism.
Professor Basel's scientific and practical achievements in medical genetics have repeatedly been recognized with prestigious awards from professional medical societies in Israel. Among them are awards from the Gertrude Cohen foundation and fellowships from the Branco Weiss Foundation (Swiss Academy).
For more than 15 years Lina Basel has been a mentor and teacher in the pediatrics department of the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
Professor Basel is a regular participant and speaker at international conferences and symposia devoted to the study of genetic diseases in children and adolescents. She is the author of more than 100 scientific articles published in medical journals and is an editorial board member and reviewer for more than a dozen popular Israeli medical journals.
- Diagnosis and treatment of genetically determined pathology in children and adolescents.
- Determination of genetic risks when planning conception.
Thanks to early examination of expectant mothers by a geneticist using the newest diagnostic methods, the risk of having children with incurable congenital pathologies is significantly reduced.