In addition, he is the Director of the National Laboratory for the Genetics of Israeli Populations (NLGIP) at the same faculty. He earned a PhD in Biochemistry from Tel-Aviv University in 1986. Following his postgraduate training (UCI, CA, USA), he worked for five years at the Israel Institute for Biological Research before moving to Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Medicine in 1995 to establish the Natinal Laboratory for the Genetics of Israeli Populations (NLGIP).