Yosef (Yossi) Buganim is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Ananda Labs, and an HHMI International Research Scholar. He received his undergraduate degrees from Bar-Ilan University, his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and completed his postdoctoral training in stem cell biology and nuclear reprogramming at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT.

Buganim was the first to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) without using the classical Yamanaka factors and identified a late deterministic phase of cellular reprogramming. His laboratory has also pioneered rejuvenation technologies and direct cellular reprogramming, establishing multiple lineage-conversion paradigms, including the direct generation of placental stem cells and all three major stem cell types of the early mammalian embryo from skin cells.

His work has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards and grants, including the HHMI International Research Scholar Award, ERC Starting Grant, EMBO Young Investigator (YIP) Award, the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Award from Science and Science Translational Medicine, the KY Cha Award for Stem Cell Technology, and the Wolf Foundation’s Krill Prize, among others.