President of the Non-profit Weizmann Institute Becomes Rehovot's Biotech Firm Top Official

"Evogene Special Advisor to the Board of Directors, Professor Ilan Chet (President of the Weizmann Institute)

Since 2001, President, Weizmann Institute of Science. 2000, Member, The Advisory Panel of NATO Science Program. 1998, Member, External Advisory Group (EAG) to the European Union Research. Chairman, Rothschild Prize Committee. Chairman, Mifal Hapayis (Israel's national lottery) Committee for scientific research prizes.

1992-2001, VP, R&D, Univ. of Jerusalem; 1984-94; Visiting Professor at numerous Universities; 1986-89, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture; 1983-86, Director, Otto Warburg Center of Biotechnology in Agriculture; 1981-83, Head, Dept of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew Univ. 1978, Professor of Microbiology; 1975, Assoc. Professor of Microbiology; 1972, Sr. Lecturer in Microbiology.

1968, PhD, Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem; 1964, MSc (Hons), Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem; 1962, BSc (Hons), Faculty of Agriculture."

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