SMART Biotech Ltd. has an Advisory Board including prominent members:
Mr. Efraim Halevy - London born Efraim Halevy (1934) immigrated to Palestine in the year 1948 as a teenager and completed his high school and university education in Israel. He graduated in law and was President of the National Union of Israeli Students (1955-1957). In 1961 he joined the "Mossad" and served there for close to forty years. He was deputy head (1990- 1995) and director of the Mossad for four and a half years (1998-2002). He was Israel Ambassador to the European Union (1996-1998) and National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Sharon (2002- 2003). He has been awarded several prizes and foreign honors and has been serving as Head of the Hebrew University Shasha Center for Strategic Studies as of 2003. He was a board member of the multinational Israel Fertiliser Company Makhteshim –Agan (2004-2007) and has been a member of international boards of several Israeli start up projects.
His book "Man in the Shadows" was published simultaneously in New York and London in 2006 and has been translated into nine languages (Hebrew, Arabic, French, Spanish, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish, Japanese and Chinese).
Scientific Advisory Board (SAB):
Dr. Aftab A. Ansari, Professor - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and Research Professor, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, positions he has held since 1985. Prior to joining Emory University, Dr. Ansari served in various scientific positions with the U.S. Navy, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ansari's research has been focused in the areas of immunology and HIV/AIDS. He has published extensively with over 500 published papers and articles to his credit.
Dr. Ellis Jacobs - Dr. Ellis Jacobs is an Associate Professor of Pathology at New York University School of Medicine, Director of Chemistry at Bellevue Medical Center and Associate Director for Clinical Pathology, South Manhattan Health Network of the New York City Health & Hospital Corporation. He is former Director of the New York State Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program, which oversees the evaluation, certification, and regulation of clinical laboratories accepting specimens from residents of New York State as part of its clinical laboratory reference system. Dr. Jacobs received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of South Carolina and completed postdoctoral training in Clinical Chemistry & Toxicology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry and a Fellow of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. Additionally he is a member of the US Technical Advisory Committee for ISO TC 212-International standards for clinical laboratory testing and in-vitro diagnostic test systems.
Dr. Jerry Orlin - Graduated from Yale Medical School in 1974. Specialty Boards in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Transfusion Medicine. Served for 3 years as the medical director of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga (Emory University School of Medicine). Currently Director of the Dept. of Transfusion Medicine and Apheresis Department of the Rabin Medical Center in Petach Tikva Israel – the largest Transfusion Medicine Dept in Israel.
Financial Advisor:
Mr. Marc J. Oppenheimer - Mr. Oppenheimer serves as the Chief Operations Officer of IDT, a multi-national NYSE-listed publicly-traded, multi-billion dollar company with operations spanning various industries. Mr. Oppenheimer has an extensive background in finance and business. He formerly served in top Executive and Management positions in several global publicly-traded companies and asset firms and held officer positions at Midlantic National Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank. |