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Dan Peer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ43193344
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Dan Peer (Hebrew: דן פאר) is a Professor and the Director of the Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine at Tel Aviv University (TAU). He is also the Vice President for Research and Development at TAU. In 2017 he co-founded and acts as the managing director of SPARK Tel Aviv, Center for Translational Medicine. From 2016–2020 he was the chair of the TAU Cancer Biology Research Center.

Peer is a past President of the Israeli Chapter of the Controlled Release Society. He was elected to the Israel Young Academy of Science. He is an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA), and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (USA) and the Controlled Release Society.

Research work

Peer pioneered the field of active cellular targeting of RNA payloads into specific cell types. His lab was among the first to demonstrate immunomodulation through a systemic delivery of RNA-loaded targeted nanocarriers. The team also pioneered the use of RNAi to reprogram immune cells and discover new therapeutic modalities. In addition, his lab was the first to show systemic, cell specific delivery of mRNA in an animal.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dan Peer” is researcher. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Peer and researcher, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2016, 2020—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1972-07-19, 1972—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Peer and researcher is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43193344. VIAF identifies the subject as 98348567. The Library of Congress control number is no2012058597. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2016 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from Dan Peer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.