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 Tel. office:+972-2-658-5106; Lab: +972-2-658-6048

Research Laboratory

Prof. Ann Saada-Reisch, Director of the Master’s of Medical Laboratory Sciences (MMLSc)  program

Ann Saada (Reisch) was born and grew up in Sweden to parents of Hungarian descent, immigrated to Israel and raised a family of four boys with her husband Joel Saada. She studied BSc in biology, MSc and PhD in microbiology, and post doctorate in neurobiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ann is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Her research focuses on inborn metabolic, mitochondrial diseases and the mitochondrial respiratory chain function on diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Prof. Saada-Reisch in also experienced (25y) in clinical laboratory work. She managed the enzyme and metabolic laboratories at Hadassah Medical Center and directed the enzyme laboratory at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

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Phd Research at the Public Health and Health Systems Management Program, Management Department, Bar Ilan University, MA thesis at the Chemistry Department, Bar - Ilan University, BA of Medicinal Chemistry at Bar Ilan University. Teaching degree at Bar Ilan University. 

Experience of 15 years in Quality Assurance manager at meuhedet laboratories

Dr.  Saleh Abu-Raya Obtained his B.Sc. degree (in Biology), M.Sc. (Endocrinology), and PhD (Pharmacology), from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dr. Abu-Raya teaches several courses at Hadassah Academic college since 2000  as part of the graduate programs, in the Department of Optometry: ( General Pharmacology, Ocular Pharmacology), Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences: (Pharmacology, Endocrinology, Seminar), Department of Biotechnology: (Pharmacology and Drug Metabolism, Physiology of the Endocrine System).

Other Activities of Dr. Abu-Raya at Hadassah Academic College: 

• Member of the Teaching Committee of the Medical Laboratory Sciences Department
• Academic advisor for third year students in the Medical Laboratory Sciences Department
• Academic advisor for students from Arab society

Dr. Abu-Raya has published many papers in the international scientific journals on the fields of: 

1)Phospholipase A2 and their involvement in exocytosis in PC12 cells.

2)Synthesis and release of prostaglandis under ischemic conditions.

3)  the neuroprotective effect of  Rasagiline, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, on 

NGF-differentiated PC12 cells against oxygen-glucose deprivation.

Contact: saleh@jmc.ac.il

Dr. Irit Cohen, Ph.D. Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem in Tumor Biology,Dept. Thesis topic: The involvement of Heparanase and PAR1 in breast cancer progression. Supervisor: Prof. I. Vlodavsky and Prof. R. Bar-Shavit. M.Sc in the same Lab, Join the direct PhD program at end of the second year. M.Sc degree received with research plan approval. B.Sc in Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences at Tel Hai Academic College graduated with excellence award. Upon graduation I joined QBI, a company developing a novel RNAi-based therapeutics, as  a scientific researcher in the filed of drug discovery and evaluation, from basic research to pre-clinical studies including deep understanding in cancer models and drug tracking models. For the past two years I have returned to the academy and I am the lab manager of two senior researchers, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University, where I promotes independent research and instructing graduate students.