Degani, Hadassa: Career Notes

High-school education and undergraduate and graduate studies in chemistry determined my subsequent career in the field of NMR in biomedicine. My research was predominantly conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science and included fruitful collaborations with scientists in Israel and abroad. The supervision of young students presented a challenge and a reward. The work yielded a broad range of methodologies to study biologically relevant systems by NMR spectroscopy and imaging, from cells through animals to humans. The results provided a better understanding of hormonal regulation, angiogenesis, as well as energy and lipid metabolism in breast cancer and led to the development of novel MRI means for breast cancer detection and diagnosis.