חיים מנור

1966- Ph.D. in Biophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

1966-1968-postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Helen Hay Whitney fellowship

1968-1970- postdoctoral fellow, Weizmann Institute, Helen Hay Whitney fellowship

1970-1972- Research Associate, Weizmann Institute.

1972-1980- Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

1980-1991- Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

1992-2005- Professor, Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

1994-2005- The women’s division American Technion Society Chair in Biology

2005- Professor Emeritus, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

As a research associate at the Weizmann Institute, I began my research on the molecular biology of DNA tumor viruses. Together with my students, I continued these studies at the Technion. Later, this research led to our studies of DNA triplexes and quadruplexes, in which field we made several significant discoveries.

In the final phase of my scientific career at the Technion, my students and I studied the enzyme telomerase. This enzyme catalyzes the synthesis of telomeres, which contain DNA repeats that form triplexes and quadruplexes. In parallel, we discovered and studied a protein (named translin by others who discovered it independently) that selectively binds such repeats.

The various phases of our research are described in our scientific articles, of which a list of selected publications is provided herewith.