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Dr. Mandel is the l Director of the Blood bank and Transfusion Center at Sheba Medical Center Israel since 1994. Completed her M.D. studies in 1981 at the Sackler School of Medicine and won her M.H.A (Master's Degree in Health Management) in 2000 at Leon Recanaty Faculty of Management Tel-Aviv University.
Dr. Mandel is a specialist in Pediatrics General Hematology and Pediatric Hemato-Oncology. Served as chairman of the Division of Laboratories between 2000 -2003 and acts as Head of Bid and Tender committee since 2002.
Dr. Mandel's main research interests are related to immune mechanisms in autoimmunity and cancer. She is part of a group that studies autoimmunity gene expression signatures in peripheral blood mononuclear cells using advanced microarray technology. She is involved in clinical studies and basic research evaluating the therapeutic effects of T-cell vaccination using autologous T- cell lines generated from MS patients and expanded in the TCV laboratory of the Blood Center and used for vaccination at the Multiple Sclerosis Center. | 