Abraham (Avri) Rubinstein is a Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, School of Pharmacy Institute for Drug Research. After completing his M.Sc. degree (physical pharmacy) he joined the R&D division of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, at which place he was promoted to head the Pharmacy R&D laboratory of the company. After 8 years in the industry he returned to the Hebrew University to complete his graduate studies (drug delivery and pharmacokinetics), spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Wisconsin-Madison (GI pharmacology, motility and oral drug delivery) and joined the School of Pharmacy in Jerusalem as a faculty member. He is the author of more than 100 research articles, reviews and book chapters and has more than 120 published presentations, as well as 5 patents. Three of the technologies he developed were purchased by start-up companies. Prof. Rubinstein was a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the Controlled Release Society of Bioactive Materials and the president of the Israeli Chapter of the Society. At the Hebrew University he served as the Head of the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Head of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Teaching Program of the School of Pharmacy. In 2004-2005 he was an Adjunct Professor at the Rutgers School of Pharmacy, N.J.https://medicine.ekmd.huji.ac.il/En/Publications/ResearchersPages/pages/avrir.aspx