User:Karpuj

marcela karpuj was born in Argentina 14th of December 1968. Her family moved to Israel in 1973. Her first degree was in chemistry and biochemistry at the Hebrew university, then worked on the taste receptors at the faculty of agriculture. Then moved to work on multiple sclerosis at the Weizmann institute and ended up working on huntington disease and the involvement of transglutaminase in this disease. Thereafter she moved to the laboratory of professor Stan Prusiner were she discovered serendipitously that phosphorodiesters are degrading the infectious Prion protein. In 2005 she opened her own laboratory at the biochemistry department hebrew university. There she investigated the mechanism of this degradation. In 2007 she moved back to San francisco and she is working currently on anti viral drugs at CUBRC a non for profit organization ((ascb workshop))