Global Conference 2007 | Raphael Hofstein
Raphael Hofstein
President and CEO, Hadasit Ltd.
Raphael Hofstein is President and CEO of Hadasit Ltd., a subsidiary of Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem. Hadasit Ltd. was created to promote and commercialize its intellectual property and R&D capabilities. From 1997 to 1999, Hofstein was president of Mindsense Biosystems Ltd., an Israeli company engaged in the development of immune assays for different diagnoses in neuropsychiatry. From 1988 to 1997, he was employed by Ecogen Inc., first in Israel as scientific director of Ecogen Israel Partnership, evaluating, funding and developing products, and from 1997 in Pennsylvania, for the commercial development of novel microbial fungicides. Hofstein received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics from Hebrew University, both his master's and Ph.D. in from Weizmann Institute of Science and his postdoctoral research fellowships from Harvard Medical School.
Panel:
Israel: Confessions of an Economic Growth Engine
|
