Yaniv Makayes is an MD-PhD student since 2019. 

Yaniv grew up in Macabim, a small village next to Modiin. He was an active volunteer in a youth movement and volunteered for one year before his army service.

Yaniv started his MD studies at the Hebrew University and joined the lab in 2019 as M.D Ph.D. student.

He has already won a prestigious award of the Israeli science ministry for his research for preventing chronic kidney disease in the elderly. 

Yaniv is interested in metabolic and epigenetic control of kidney development.