Francesca Levi-schaffer Ph.D.

Francesca Levi-Schaffer is a Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) in the Institute for Drug Research of theSchoolofPharmacy, Faculty of Medicine. She holds the Isaac and Myrna Kaye Chair in Immunopharmacology. From 2006-2009 Prof. Levi-Schaffer was Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and head of the Teaching Unit of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in the HUJI Faculty of Medicine, School of Pharmacy.

Prof. Levi-Schaffer was born in Italy and completed her PharmD degree at theUniversityofMilano. In 1984 she received her Ph.D. degree in Immunology from the Weizmann Institute,Rehovot, Israel. Her post-doctoral training was at Harvard Medical School (1984-86). Prof. Levi-Schaffer has published 153 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 63 reviews and editorials and 23 book chapters. She has one patent and two provisional patents.