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Biography

Prof. Firer researches the development of targeted therapies for cancer. This work includes targeted cellular immunotherapy and targeted drug delivery systems. He is an immunologist who received his BSc(Hons) from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and his Ph.D from Melbourne University. He then received a Feinberg Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Prof. Zelig Eshhar. at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, He joined the faculty at Ariel University in 1992 (then a small college) and now has a joint appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and in the Adelson School of Medicine, where he serves as Deputy Dean.

Research interests: Targeted drug delivery and cellular immunotherapies for cancer; phage display techniques