Prof. Benjamin Reubinoff Md

Biography

Prof. Reubinoff, Director of the Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center and Senior Physician at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, is one of the pioneers of hESC research. He was second to derive hESC from blastocysts and first to demonstrate that they could develop in culture into the three major cell types of the human body. He was further the first, simultaneously with scientists at Wisconsin University, to produce highly enriched cultures of neural precursor cells from hESC. 

Research Interest

pharmaceutical science