Bio- Ofra Benny, PhD
CURRENT POSITIONS
2023- present Full Professor, Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy. Faculty of Medicine. Hebrew University o
2019 - present Head, Laboratory for Nanomedicine and Tumor Microenvironment, School of Pharmacy. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2020 - present Director, Pharmacy Division, School of Pharmacy. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2020 - present Director, David R. Bloom Center for Pharmacy.
2021 - present Director, Fraunhofer Project Center for Drug Discovery and Delivery at HUJI
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PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2019 - 2023 Associate Professor, Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy. Faculty of Medicine. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2013 - 2019 Senior Lecturer, Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 2010 - 2013 Instructor, Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
2010 - 2013 Research Associate, Boston Children’s Hospital, Surgery, Boston, USA.
2008 - 2010 Research Fellow, Vascular Biology Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA. Mentor: Robert D’Amato.
2007 - 2008 Research Fellow, Vascular Biology Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA. Mentor: Prof. Judah Folkman.
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EDUCATION
2000 - 2006 M.Sc-PhD, Faculty of Biotechnology Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
1996 - 2000 BSc, Biotechnology Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.