Professor Yair Anikster

Biography

Yair Aniskter, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the Metabolic Disease Unit at the Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Israel. He completed his fellowship in inborn errors of metabolism at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the mentorship of Dr. William Gahl, where he was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute scholarship and contributed to identifying the gene responsible for cystinosis.

Dr. Aniskter leads a multidisciplinary clinical team specializing in the care of children and adults with inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) and other rare genetic disorders. He also heads a molecular biochemistry laboratory with extensive expertise in uncovering the molecular basis of rare inherited diseases.

With over 200 publications in esteemed journals—including The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Genetics, Brain, and The American Journal of Human Genetics—Dr. Aniskter is actively involved in several translational clinical trials. He is widely recognized for his commitment to bridging molecular discoveries with clinical applications in rare metabolic diseases.