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Dr. Irit Cohen, Ph.D. Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem in Tumor Biology,Dept. Thesis topic: The involvement of Heparanase and PAR1 in breast cancer progression. Supervisor: Prof. I. Vlodavsky and Prof. R. Bar-Shavit. M.Sc in the same Lab, Join the direct PhD program at end of the second year. M.Sc degree received with research plan approval. B.Sc in Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences at Tel Hai Academic College graduated with excellence award. Upon graduation I joined QBI, a company developing a novel RNAi-based therapeutics, as  a scientific researcher in the filed of drug discovery and evaluation, from basic research to pre-clinical studies including deep understanding in cancer models and drug tracking models. For the past two years I have returned to the academy and I am the lab manager of two senior researchers, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University, where I promotes independent research and instructing graduate students.