ISSN: 2578-6490
Professor Emeritus
Technion-Rappaport Family Faculty of Medicine
Eve Topf Center of Excellence
Israel
Tel: 972-4-8295290
Prof. Youdim has a long and distinguished career as a scientist, a teacher and as an administrator. His research career spans more than 50 years. He obtained his Ph.D from McGill University in 1966 and for the first time described the presence of two forms of monoamine oxidases (MAO) in the liver and brain of rats and he held positions at London University, Cambridge University, College de France and Oxford University Department of Medicine and MRC Unit of Clinical Pharmacology before assuming the position of the first Chairman of the Pharmacology Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Faculty of Medicine in 1977and Finketstein Professor of Life Sciences. He holds the position of Distinguished Scientific Professor at Hong Kong PolyU , Hong Kong University, ,Qingdao, Janin and Shanghai Universities in China and at Yonsei World central University in Seoul. He hold the position of Distinguished Professor at the Materia Medica Shanghai University Chinese Traditional Medicine for his pioneering studies on the anti Alzheimer and Anti Parkinson activity of Chinese green tea and its polyphenol EGCG.
