Prof. Ofra Benny is a senior lecturer in the Institute for Drug Research in the School of Pharmacy at the Hebrew University since 2013. She holds B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD. degrees in biotechnology engineering all from the Technion (1996-2007). She had a position as a research associate and instructor at the Boston Children’s Hospital, Vascular Biology at the Harvard Medical School for three years (2010-2013) where she also did her postdoctoral studies (2007-2010).