Abraham Warshvsky

Gary Gelerman

Mati Fidkin

Chaim Gilon



Abraham Warshvsky, Ph.D.
President
1960-1969: B.Sc. M.Sc D.Sc, Faculty of Chemistry, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Professional Activities:
1970-1973: Scientist, and Principal Scientist, National Institute for etallurgy (N.I.M), Johannesburg, South Africa.
Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (W.I.S.)
1973-today: Scientist, Senior Scientist the Rebbeca and Israel Sieff Professorial Chair in Organic Chemistry (W.I.S.)
1980-81: 86-7 Chemistry Division, Eastman-Kodak Research Laboratories, Rochester, New York, U.S.A, Rochester, New York, U.S.A
1986-87: Life Sciences Division, on sabbatical leave from the Weizmann Institute.

1991-1999 coEditor-in-Chief - Reactive Polymers and Reactive@Functional Polymers
Personal Details:
Address Departement of Organic Chemistry
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot 76100, Israel
Phone 972 8 934 2242 - office
972 8 934 2243 - lab
Fax 972 8 934 4142
E-mail cowarsha@wicc.weizmann.ac.il



Gary Gelerman, Ph.D, MBA
Chairman
completed MBA and Ph.D in organic chemistry in1995 at Tel-Aviv University and joined Peptor Ltd. in 1996.
During the last 6 years he has specialized in combinatorial chemistry and drug discovery. Together with Prof. Mati Fridkin he was responsible for the organization of the first Combichem symposium, held in Kfar ha Macabia on May 2000, in which more than hundred scientists were attended. After the establishment of ISCT he was elected as the Chairman of the Society.
Personal Details:
Address Yahalom 45, Neve Yam
Rishon Le Zion 75436, Israel
Phone 972 8 9387785
Fax 972 8 9300777
E-mail gary@peptor.co.il



Mati Fridkin, Ph.D.
Honorary President
Mati Fridkin obtained his M.Sc from the Hebrew University on 1963 and Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Science on 1968.
Currently he is a full Prof. in the Department of Organic Chemistry in the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Previous Employment include:
1970-72 Research Associate at M.I.T
1978-79 Visiting Scientist N.I.H.
1982 Kyoto University
1993 Wayne State University

Major Research Interests:
Chemistry Biology of Peptides and Proteins, Solid Phase Synthetic Methodologies.
Personal Details:
Address Department of Organic Chemistry
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot 76100, Israel
Phone 972 8 934 2505
Fax 972 8 934 4142
E-mail mati.fridkin@weizmann.ac.il



Chaim Gilon, Ph.D.
Director of International Relations
Professor of Chemistry. Inventor of the Cycloscan technology of backbone cyclic peptide libraries with spatial diversity for the fast discovery and optimization of peptido- and proteinomimetic drug candidate.
Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry. Chief scientific advisor of Peptor Ltd.
Field of interest:
Application of the Cycloscan technology for the discovery of proteinomimetic inhibitors of protein:protein and protein:nucleic acid interactions. Signal transaction therapy. Development of novel chemical vectors for gene therapy. Development of insect neuropeptide antagonists as potential insecticides. Early ADMET.
Personal Details:
Address Department of Organic Chemistry, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Phone 972 2 6585276
Fax 972 2 6416358
E-mail gilon@vms.huji.ac.il