Gender Male
Mr. Gerstel is chairman of Compugen Ltd, Evogene Ltd, and Keddem Bioscience, co-founder and co-chairman of Itamar Medical, and serves as a director of Symyx Technologies, Yissum Ltd, Yeda Ltd and the Foundation for the National Medals of Science and Technology.
Prior to 1994, Mr. Gerstel was co-chairman and CEO of ALZA Corporation, which he
helped found in 1968. He is an advisor to the Burrill Life Science Funds and the board of the Israel-U.S. Bi-national Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation and is a member of the Boards of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Hebrew University.
Mr. Gerstel holds a B.S. from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford University.