Dr. Alona Weiss, Partner: Prior to joining IHCV in 2005, Alona served as a Senior Licensing Officer at Yeda Research and Development Ltd. – the technology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Prior to that she was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital.. She has also held several. consulting positions at life science companies in the Boston area.. Alona holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a M.Sc. in Life Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a B.Sc. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Magna Cum Laude).