Prof. David Stepensky – Head of the Pharmacy School of Ben Gurion University.

lecturer and researcher at the Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Pharmacology and School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

David graduated with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, a master’s degree and a PhD at the Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After that, he enlisted in the IDF and served in a military analytical laboratory dealing with quality testing of medicines and medical equipment. At the end of his military service, he completed post-doctorates in the Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Department of Immunobiology at Yale University in the USA. His main research areas are: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, PK-PD models, development of drug administration systems, targeting of drugs to the site of action. David teaches pharmacokinetics and pharmacology at the University of Ben-Gurion in the Negev and in additional academic programs, he published over 60 scientific papers, and serves as a consultant in his research areas to the Israeli Ministry of Health and to pharma and startup companies in Israel and abroad.