Faculty and Staff - Medical Laboratory Sciences (B.Med.Lab.Sc)

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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

Avital Swisa is a researcher specializing in human genetics and epigenetics.

She has extensive research experience in biochemistry, metabolism, developmental biology, genetics, and epigenetics. Avital possesses strong skills in computational genomics. During her postdoctoral research at UPenn, Avital investigated the epigenetic regulation of the gut epithelium and the relationship between the gut microbiome and host genetics. 

Avital holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University. Her research primarily focused on pancreatic beta cell dynamics and diabetes. Her significant findings have been published in high-impact scientific journals, and she has been awarded prestigious scholarships such as the Arien De-Rotchild and Adams fellowships.

Avital has served as a teaching assistant in biochemistry classes at Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College and the Hebrew University.