Dr. Rima Dardik is the Head of the Molecular Biology Unit, Coagulation Laboratory, at the National Hemophilia Center and Thrombosis Unit at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer. She is also a Senior Researcher at the Amalia Biron Research Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Tel Aviv University. She graduated from The Hebrew University in 1981, and then recieved her M.Sc. (1983) and Ph.D. (1989) in Life Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1993. Her research interests lie in the cross-talk between hemostasis and angiogenesis and the genetics of bleeding disorders, using mutation analyses and functional studies.