Professor Avi Domb

Prof. Avi Domb earned B.Sc. degrees in Chemistry (Bar Ilan, 1978), Pharmacy (Hebrew University, 1984) and Law (Hebrew University 2007). He earned Diplomas in Polymer and Textile Chemistry (Hebrew University, 1980) and Executive business management (Hebrew University, 1997) and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (Hebrew University, 1985). He had a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Syntex Research (1984-5), and continued at the Department of Surgery, The Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1985-6), and the Department of Chemical Engineering, M.I.T (1986-7) .
In 1987 he joined the Biological Institute in Nes-Ziona, Israel, and in 1988 he served as head of Drug Delivery Laboratories at Nova Pharmaceutical  Corporation, Baltimore, USA. Since 1991 he has been a faculty member at the School of Pharmacy-faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University. Between the years 2007-2012 he took leave to head the Division of Identification and Forensic Sciences (DIFS), Israel police, Rank: Brigadier General. During 2014-2016 he was President of the Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem, and from 2018 he has been the head of the School of Pharmacy-Faculty of Medicine of The Hebrew University. In 2021 he joined the Ministry of Science and Technology as Chief Scientist.
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