Mira Barda-Saad obtained her PhD in Molecular Immunology through a collaborative research at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS). She performed postdoctoral studies at the WIS and later at the NCI/NIH, where she received the Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE). Later, she joined the Faculty of Life Sciences at BIU. She was awarded the Taubenblatt Award for Research Excellence in Biomedicine. Prof. Barda-Saad served as the president of the Israeli Immunological Society (IIS) (2017-2020). Currently, she serves as the President of the Federation of the Israel Societies for Experimental Biology (FISEB). Her research focuses on signal transduction mechanisms in immune cells, and specifically, on leukocyte behavior in health and disease.