EDUCATION
1999 | Ph.D. University of London, Faculty of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, UK. Thesis title:
“PDEPT: Polymer Directed Enzyme Prodrug Therapy”. PI: Ruth Duncan.
1996 | Internship in Industrial Pharmacy, Perio Products LTD, Jerusalem, Israel.
1995 | B.Pharm. The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel.
EMPLOYMENT
2014-present | Chair, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of
Medicine, Tel Aviv University
2011-present | Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler
School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
2005-2010 | Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of
Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
2005-present | Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital
Boston, USA.
2002-2005 | Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
2002-2005 | Research Associate, Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA.
2001-2002 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital,
Boston, USA. PI: Judah Folkman.
2000-2001 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tel Aviv University. PI: Sara Lavi.
1999-present | Consultant, Several Biotech and Pharmaceutical Companies.
1995-1996 | Pharmacist, Israel.
HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2014 | Scientific achievements were acknowledged by inclusion in the “50 Most powerful and influential women” list of the Forbes journal, Israel (#13/50)
2014-2019| ERC Consolidator Grant
2013 | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Founders Award
2013 | Scientific achievements were acknowledged by inclusion in the “50 Most influential women of 2013” list of the Globes journal, Israel.
2012 | Excellence in Teaching Award
2011 | Scientific achievements were acknowledged by inclusion in the “50 Most influential women of 2011” list of the Globes journal, Israel.
2010 | The Juludan Prize for the Advancement of Technology in Medicine.
2009 | Scientific achievements were acknowledged by inclusion in the “50 Most promising women” list of the Calcalist journal, Israel.
2008 | Scientific achievements were acknowledged by inclusion in the 40/40 (40 people under the age of 40) list of the The Marker journal, Israel.
2006 | Alon Fellowship for outstanding young investigators.

2005 | EACR Young Cancer Researcher highly commended Award- Presented at the ECCO 13 meeting, Paris, France.
2003 | CRS-Ethypharm Outstanding Pharmaceutical Paper Award.
2001-2002 | The Rothschild scholarship.
2001-2002 | The Fulbright scholarship.
2001 | International Union Against Cancer (UICC) Award (declined).
2000 | The Becton Dickinson Award.
2000 | The A. M. Cook Prize for Ph.D. Thesis.
1999-2001 | Vectura Ltd. Postdoctoral Grant.
1999 | CRS-3M Graduate Student Outstanding Research Award in Drug Delivery.
1998-1999 | AVI Award, Geneva, Switzerland.
1998-1999 | The Wingate Scholarship.
1997-1999 | The Laura de Saliceto University Postgraduate Trust Studentship.
1997-1999 | The Overseas Research Student (ORS) Award.
1997 | The Nagai Foundation Tokyo Graduate Student Award.
1996-1999 | Leo Baeck (London) Lodge B’nai B’rith scholarship.
1996-1997 | British Council Chevening Award.
TEACHING
2006-present | Course coordinator and Lecturer, Pharmacology course, Faculty of Medicine,
Tel Aviv University.
2006-present | Lecturer, Oncogenes and Oncogenic Viruses Postgraduate course, at the
Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
2010-present | Coordinator and Lecturer, New Horizons in Drug Delivery Systems, Advanced
Postgraduate course, at the Nanosciences and Nanotechnology Program, Tel Aviv University.