-Here at WIS I work with Dr. Jakub Abramson who I got to know during a stay at Harvard Medical School. Abramson is an expert on mouse models with APS-I, while we have one of the world’s largest cohorts of patients. Together we are attempting to solve problems concerning disease mechanisms. At the moment we have to exciting projects underway which we believe will be noticed when they soon are published, he adds.

Enjoying the country

- I am not attempting to hide that I love being here, he continues. – Israel is a fascination in itself. The people, the culture, the diversity; it is exciting to experience up close. However; I am in no way blind to the conflicts the country – the nation – represents. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I recently held a lecture for 30 pediatricians at the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem. The host was David Zangen. His two closest colleagues are both Arab doctors; all three work at Arab hospitals in and around Jerusalem. So relations across borders can be fruitful! While we are on the topic of Israel: a Norwegian-Israeli research effort – a research fund – is something I both miss and wish for. Our new government should establish something similar to what Denmark, Sweden and Finland have – nations we like to compare ourselves to – is his little political end statement from Israel.