Prof. Ofer Nativ is a urological surgeon, head of the urology department at the "Bnei Zion" Medical Center, specializing in complex bladder, prostate and kidney cancer. He is also an Associate Professor of the Technion Institute of Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Senior Lecturer of Tel-Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine, Dept. of surgery, and researching experimental therapeutic agents for superficial bladder cancer, flow cytometeric nuclear DNA analysis of genitourinary malignancies, morphometric characterization of genitourinary neoplasms, development of surgical techniques and devices for the management of urinary incontinence, noninvasive detection of bladder cancer by means of proteomic and metabolomic analysis, improving drug delivery for treatment of superficial bladder cancer, assessment the role of tissue adhesives in nephron sparing surgery, functional preservation in nephron sparing surgical procedures, and ischemic damage to the kidney during nephron sparing surgery.