Dr. Rina Arad-Yellin has been a senior researcher and a laboratory manager at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Weizmann Institute of Science for more than 20 years. She has worked for DuPont de Nemours (1980-1982), Bell Laboratories (1982-1983) and Hoffman-La-Roche (1986-1988) and as a chemist for a team involved in research toward the development of vaccine against sulfur mustard and soman (1988-1992). She received her her Ph.D. (1978) from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. She is a co-author of more than 50 research publications, has lectured in many national and international meetings and contributed more than 60 abstracts to scientific conferences. Her major research interests are focused in the synthesis and study of new compounds. In recent years she was mainly involved in the study of metal-carrying bio-mimetic molecules with emphasis on the development of new drugs, novel diagnostic kits and trials to use new molecular structures for the miniaturization of electronic circuits and storage of information. |