About
Dr. Ben-Yehudah is the Director of Research Administration at the Israeli Ministry of Health. His responsibilities include promoting and funding various studies in health and health-related fields. In addition, he is responsible for the development and promotion of multinational research networks devoted to the treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of disease in humans.
Dr. Ben-Yehudah received his PhD in 2003 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. As part of his thesis research, Dr. Ben-Yehudah developed a new therapy for cancer, which is under clinical trials today. During his post-doctoral fellowship, he investigated differences in lung development between pre-mature male and female infants. These developmental differences in lung maturation lead to the gender difference found in the survival rates of male and female infants.