Francesca Levi-Schaffer is a Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Faculty of Medicine. She holds the Isaac and Myrna Kaye Chair in Immunopharmacology. Prof. Levi-Schaffer completed her PharmD degree at the University of Milano, PhD at the Weizmann Institute, Israel, and post-doctorate at Harvard Medical School. She has published 190 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 115 reviews and editorials and 27 book chapters and has three patents and three provisional patents. She is President of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) (2024-2026) and chairperson of the National Committee of IUPHAR representing the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She was the first chair of IUPHAR’s Immunopharmacology Section. Prof. Levi-Schaffer is a member of the Israeli Ministry of Health Committee for Human Experimentation of New Drugs. Her expertise is in immunopharmacology of allergy focusing on mast cells and eosinophils, their activating and inhibitory receptors, their cross-talk for a better prophylaxis/treatment of allergic diseases.