The Team

Graduate of the University of London and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Dr. Daren has more than thirty years of experience in the chemical industry and academia. For the past fifteen years he has been a consultant providing solutions to numerous problems of the chemical, pharmaceutical, polymer and plastic industries.  Dr. Daren is a recognized authority on plastics, polymers, adhesives and flame retardants. Dr. Daren has provided expert opinions on various problems to Israeli and European bodies and is an examiner in the EC. He holds several patents in the field of agriculture, battery-electrolytes, plastics and flame retardants. 

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Graduate of the college of management, joined Daren Labs at 2006 and established the Daren innovation center ,an early stage accelerator for start up companies in the fields of chemistry, Bio med, clean tech and more. Ofer has 10 years of experience of innovative productions and organizations management. Ofer is functioning as the Managing Director of the center. Among his frame work ,Ofer  contribute from my experience, to assist our innovation center tenants, to shorten their establishment phase and to establish fast operational concoctions, so they can focus on achieving their goals. In addition Ofer is a member of the Board of directors for ventures that Daren Labs invest in. 

Dr. Elliott Silcoff is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute and Stanford University. Dr. Silcoff has over 20 years experience in research and development, with many released products and over 30 patents. He has worked as a leading scientist and managed research groups in many fields including synthesis, polymers, electrochemistry, materials engineering, analysis, pharma and hi-tech.

Fabienne is an R&D chemist with more than 20 years of experience in multidisciplinary R&D projects such as medicinal chemistry, pesticides, water recovery and nano-particle synthesis. Prior to joining Darenlabs, Fabienne worked as researcher at the Agricultural Research Organization (under the ministry of Agriculture, Israel) were she developed new “green” indicators for food products and biological pesticides. Fabienne worked as an analytical chemist at Sol-Gel, an Israeli company developing nano-encapsulation technology. Fabienne also spent four years at the CEA Atomic Energy Research Center, France, where she helped develop new methods for the recovery of radioactive water. Fabienne earned her MSc. BSc and PhD (Cum Laude) at the UCB-Lyon 1 University, France, and her Post doctorate was at the Tel-Aviv University.

Graduate of the Donetzk University, Vlada has over 12 years of experience in R&D at Daren Labs. She has acquired many skills under Dr. Daren and Dr. Tsvetkov's supervision, and today she possesses all the means  for independent research and our clients projects managing. In addition to laboratory management, Vlada is responsible for purchases and assistance at Daren Innovations Center

Pavel is a gifted chemist and has vast knowledge in organic, inorganic and analytic chemistry, polymer research for industry and unique materials development. At Daren Laboratories, Pavel performs complicated syntheses and operates fine analytical laboratory equipment. Pavel acquired professional analytical skills and is capable of unconventional solutions to various R&D problems. Pavel earned his BSc. and MSc. (cum laude) degrees in file:/Users/yonatan.ran/Sites/srccode/daren_labs/site/includes/top_menu.phpTel-Aviv University specializing in Organo-metallic Chemistry. Prior to Darenlabs Pavel worked at Jemtex and Chimo-Engineering