Debbie Lindell is the Dresner Chair in life sciences and medicine at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
[2] She then worked as a technician on a project involving coral reef and fish and decided she wanted to pursue research in marine science.
[2] Lindell's early research was on the succession of phytoplankton in the Gulf of Aqaba[3] and gene expression by the cyanobacterium Synechococcus.
[8][9] Her research also investigates the genetic factors leading to long-term coexistence of phytoplankton and viruses.
[10][11] In response to the COVID-19 disease, Lindell was part of a team who filed a patent for a reusable mask that is designed to prevent infection by viruses.