Search:   Advanced Search   Gallery   About Us   Contact Us   עברית   Supreme Court Deputy-President Eliezer Rivlin (ret.) Joins Hebrew University Faculty of Law Not just our cars, but also living organisms need antifreeze to survive in the cold Nobel laureate Dr. Bruce Beutler to lecture, receive award at Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research Learn in Israel, Heal the World: Public health leaders from 20 countries will spend nine days learning and exchanging ideas in Jerusalem Music on our Minds: international conference on music and the brain will mix science and concerts German foundation awards two €250,000 prizes to Hebrew University researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Yoram Bilu to receive Israel Prize in sociological and anthropological research How to cut down on crime? Focus police in concentrated ‘hot spots,’ says Hebrew University criminologist Healing the world: 70 graduates of International Master’s in Public Health program to attend 2nd alumni workshop, reunion in Jerusalem It's a bird, it's a plane, it's…. Hebrew U?   13 December, 2012 Head of Hebrew University Pharmacy School receives French order of merit from French ambassador Prof. Benita is presented with the decoration by French Ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot Prof. Shimon Benita, director of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy and head of its Institute for Drug Research, has received the decoration of Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite (Knight in the National Order of Merit) of France. He was presented with the honor on Dec. 12 by French Ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot at the ambassador's home In Tel Aviv-Jaffa in honor of Benita's scientific achievements and his contribution to the forging of close ties with French research. Prof. Benita immigrated to Israel in 1967 from Morocco and earned his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University School of Pharmacy, Following his doctoral studies, he participated in pioneering research in Israel on drug delivery based on micro and nano-particles. This brought about revolutionary improvement in the administering of chemotherapy drugs and their efficacy. Prof. Benita spent many years doing research in France, where he participated in a team working at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Paris-Sud. In 2000, he founded the Novagali Pharma pharmaceutical firm, which specialized in drug delivery for optical illnesses. Novagali was the first company established at the technology park in Evry, France, with the support of the French research development agency Anvar. The company developed several novel products for the treatment of various eye illnesses. Novagali was purchased last year by the medical firm Santen for eight million euros.
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