BRIEF BIOSKETCH

• Position: Full Professor in the Chemistry department, Bar-Ilan University.
• Professional experience: Leading a research group focusing on drug development and diagnostics, involved in national and international collaborations both in academia and industry for the last 20 years.
• Education: MSc degree in Medicinal Chemistry (chemistry of carbohydrates) under the supervision of Prof. A. Nudelman/BIU; PhD in Organic Chemistry (chemistry of heterocycles)/BIU under the supervision of Prof. A. Hassner; Post-doctorate (chemistry of nucleosides and nucleotides, molecular modeling) under the supervision of Dr. K. Jacobson/NIH, MD, USA.
• Teaching experience: Courses in - Medicinal Chemistry, Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Modern Strategies in Drug Design, Bio-in-organic Chemistry, Bio-organic seminar, and Organic Chemistry Laboratory.
• Over 110 papers and 10 patents.
• Membership: Vice dean of Scool of advanced studies,  Bar-Ilan U senate member, member of the Israel Prize committee (in the field of Chemistry and Physics), former head of the Chemistry department, former Rector’s advisor for promotion of women in academia; Member of the Board of Executives of the Israeli Chemical Society, MSc Degree committee, PhD Degree committee, Referee of the Israeli Science Foundation committee, Referee of the Fulbright Foundation, Departmental Teaching committee, Member of the University Appointment and Promotion committee. 

• Prizes: Teva Prize for excellent young scientists; Juludan Prize (Technion) for the Application of Exact Sciences to Medicine; Shoham Prize for arts

 Research:

Medicinal Chemistry – development of drugs for the treatment of - type II diabetes, glaucoma, Alzheimer’s disease, osteoarthritis, and inflammatory bowel diseases; Diagnostics – development of fluorescent probes for diagnostics of breast cancer; Purinergic receptors; nucleotide metabolizing enzymes; chemistry of nucleosides/nucleotides and nucleic acids.