Dr. Tomer Cooks is an Assistant Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He heads the Cooks Lab at BGU.

Research Interests

• Tumor microenvironment
• Extracellular vesicles
• Mutations in p53
• Cancer microbiome
• The emerging role of exosomes released by tumor cells giving rise to immuno-modulating changes in the microenvironment

Education and Training

• B.Sc., Tel Aviv University
• Ph.D., Tel Aviv University
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Visiting Fellow, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, MD