I am a pharmacist and a chemist by training. My academic journey began as an undergraduate at the Hebrew University School of Pharmacy, and continued at Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry, the Hebrew University, where I did my graduate studies. My PhD thesis centered on designing drug delivery systems for poorly water-soluble pharmaceutics. I developed a general method allowing a rapid conversion of almost any insoluble substance into a dry power composed of easily water-dispersible nanoparticles. In my postdoctoral research at Stanford University I employed mass spectrometry imaging to study a variety physiological processes in living tissues, to distinguish between tissues of various pathologies, and to guide drug discovery. This work convinced me that mass spectrometry imaging can provide answers to many essential questions in modern medicine and pharmaceutics