Education
1985-1988: BSc, Faculty of Life Science, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
1988-1996: MSc/PhD Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
2001-2003: Postdoctoral Fellow, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
1988-1996: MSc/PhD Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
2001-2003: Postdoctoral Fellow, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Clinical experience
1996- 2016: Director, IVF Lab and Wolfe PGD Stem Cell Lab, Racine IVF Unit, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2004 – 2007 - Elected Secretary, Israel Fertility Society.
2007- Present - Israeli Ministry of Health advisory committee on IVF laboratories.
2016- Present - Scientific Director, division of infertility and IVF, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2007- Present - Israeli Ministry of Health advisory committee on IVF laboratories.
2016- Present - Scientific Director, division of infertility and IVF, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Academic experience
2007- Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology
Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014- Associate Professor, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, Tel Aviv University
Major Fields of Interest
Stem cells, Genetic diseases, IVF, Embryo Development
Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014- Associate Professor, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, Tel Aviv University
Major Fields of Interest
Stem cells, Genetic diseases, IVF, Embryo Development
Conference participation
170 presentations in national and international scientific meetings on which the majority of them she was the leading author and many of them were published as proceedings.
Professional publications
55 peer reviewed articles, on different aspects of IVF, human embryonic development, genetic disorders and human embryonic stem cells that were published in the leading journals in the fields.
For a listing of recent publications, refer to PubMed,
Prizes and achivements
1992-1995, The Joseph Buchmann Doctoral Scholarship Fund.
1995, Award of the Israel fertility association, prize for basic research at the annual meeting. 1995, Price lecture, Microscopy Ann. meeting.
October 2005, American society of reproduction medicine (ASRM), Society of Assisted Reproduction Technology (SART) prize paper candidate
2011, Excellency Award for Research in Developmental Biology, Switzerland Institute for Developmental Biology, Tel-Aviv University.
2012, First prize for outstanding basic research, at the annual conference of the Israel Fertility Association.
2012, First prize for original research on stem cells, Annual Young Investigators Meetings of the ISCS (Israeli Stem Cell Society).
2014, The Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience, Adams Super Center for Brain Studies.
1995, Award of the Israel fertility association, prize for basic research at the annual meeting. 1995, Price lecture, Microscopy Ann. meeting.
October 2005, American society of reproduction medicine (ASRM), Society of Assisted Reproduction Technology (SART) prize paper candidate
2011, Excellency Award for Research in Developmental Biology, Switzerland Institute for Developmental Biology, Tel-Aviv University.
2012, First prize for outstanding basic research, at the annual conference of the Israel Fertility Association.
2012, First prize for original research on stem cells, Annual Young Investigators Meetings of the ISCS (Israeli Stem Cell Society).
2014, The Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience, Adams Super Center for Brain Studies.
Union membership
The Israel Fertility Society, Israel
Alpha Scientists in Reproductive Medicine, Europe
The Israeli Society of IVF embryologists.
Israel Stem Cell Society
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society
PGD ESHRE consortsium
International Stem Cell Consortsium
Israel Society for Neuroscience
Alpha Scientists in Reproductive Medicine, Europe
The Israeli Society of IVF embryologists.
Israel Stem Cell Society
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society
PGD ESHRE consortsium
International Stem Cell Consortsium
Israel Society for Neuroscience