Prof. Mandelboim received his Ph.D. in Immunology from the Weizmann Institute of Science, followed by a post-doctorate fellowship at the Harvard Medical School. He then joined the Department of Immunology and Cancer Research at the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University, to establish a laboratory of NK cell biology. To this date, Prof. Mandelboim published more than 180 scientific papers, participated in 3 EU consortium grants, in two Marie Curie student network grants, and won an ERC advanced grant. He obtained grants in a total sum of more than 15,000,000 Euro, received more than 20 awards, and supervised more than 50 Ph.D. students.