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= Prof. Emeritus Israel Pecht =

Biography
Born in Vienna, Prof. Israel Pecht earned his MSc in Physical Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1962) and his PhD at the Weizmann Institute (1967). After spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie in Goettingen, Germany, he joined the Department of Chemical immunology of the Weizmann Institute in 1970. He founded the Dr. Josef Cohn Minerva Center for Biomembrane Research at the Weizmann Institute and served as its first Director. He also headed the Institute’s Department of Chemical Immunology (1989-1993), and its Department of Immunology (1998-2002).