Abraham Domb
Adjunct Faculty
Abraham J. Domb is the former Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology and a Professor for Medicinal Chemistry and Biopolymers at the School of Pharmacy- Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, and Law studies and PhD degree in Chemistry from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He did his postdoctoral training at MIT in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Harvard University in the Department of Surgery, The Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He was the R&D manager of the Drug Delivery Laboratories at Nova Pharmaceutical Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland from 1988-1991. Since 1991, he has been a faculty member at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a full Professor since 1999. During 2007-2012, he headed the Division of Forensic Science at the Israel Police. In 2014, he was appointed President of the Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem. His research focuses on pharmaceutics, medicinal chemistry, and forensic science.