Prof. Ashery-Padan completed Bachelor's degree in Biology and Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and continued for MSc and PhD in the Department of Genetics at the Hebrew University. She then joined the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, for postdoctoral training. Since her return to Israel she is heading a research team in the Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine and is a member of the Sagol School of Neuroscience, both at Tel Aviv University, where she also hold the Zucker–Sussman Chair for Glaucoma Research.

 

She has obtained prestigious grants and has been the recipient of awards including the Alon Fellowship, the Dan David Prize for young investigators, Teva Prize for a research grant, and an award from the E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind.

 

Prof. Ashery-Padan been a member of the national steering committee of The Israel Society for Developmental Biology and head of the Switzerland Institute of Developmental Biology at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Ashery-Padan is the head of the Yoran Institute for Human Genome Research, Tel Aviv University.​