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Activities of Faculty and Graduates of This spring, when Dr. Ayelet Arbel-Eden, Dr. Tamar Grossman, another HAC
Chair of the Department of Medical Laboratory
faculty member who lectures in the area
HAC’s Departments of Sciences at HAC, wasn’t teaching on-line, she of parasitology, and who manages Israel's
National Parasitology Center, also volunteered
took a very active role in Israel's national effort
to contain COVID-19. Dr. Arbel-Eden voluntarily to help establish a number of new diagnostic
Medical joined the new staff formed to support the laboratories to identify carriers of the
coronavirus. Recently, Dr. Grossman was
virology laboratory at Hadassah Medical
Center in Jerusalem, in order to double the
number of diagnostic tests it was able to working at the Ministry of Health’s central
COVID-19 laboratory at Sheba Tel HaShomer
Laboratory perform in a day, and to accelerate the pace of Medical Center, and helped establish another
providing these results to the individuals being new diagnostic laboratory in Jerusalem. A
tested.
further HAC staff member, Dr. Esther Vaknin

Sciences

and
In the photo:
Dr. Tamar Licht
(from right to
left), Dr. Ayelet
Biotechnology Arbel-Eden,
and Ayelet
during the Peretz.

COVID-19

To prepare for her role, she was coached by
the Department of Biotechnology, and herself
her former student - Ayelet Peretz, a graduate Joene, a lecturer in the area of virology in
of HAC’s Department of Medical Laboratory a graduate of our Department of Medical
Pandemic role in the operation of the QIASymphony diagnostic laboratory for COVID-19 at the
Laboratory Sciences, has been managing a
Sciences. Ayelet Peretz performs a critical
- a sophisticated diagnostic robot, which
Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Dr.
simultaneously produces RNA from 96 samples Mazal Bialsky, yet another HAC lecturer in
from the individuals being tested. Ayelet the area of immunology, was also mobilized
instructed Dr. Arbel-Eden in the operating to identify carriers of the coronavirus at
procedures of the robot, and Arbel-Eden Jerusalem’s Shaare Tzedek Medical Center, her
summarized their meeting as follows: “we learn regular place of employment.
something from everyone who has ever taught To Ayelet, Tamar, Esther and Mazal, we salute
us, but from our students, we learn even more.” your meaningful contributions both in teaching,
and on the front lines in the struggle to contain
COVID-19.

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