Prof. Dekel is the Head of the Pediatric Stem cell Research Institute and the Director of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at the Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel.  He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and affiliated Faculty in the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry. He served as a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University. He received a bachelor's degree in Medical Sciences and an MD from the Technion (with distinction) and a doctorate (PhD) from the Weizmann Institute of Science (with distinction). Prof. Dekel completed a residency in Pediatrics at the Sheba Medical Center, a clinical fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at the Schneider Children's Medical Center and a post-doctoral fellowship in stem cell biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.