Isaiah T. (Shy) Arkin (Hebrew: שי ארקין; born 1965) is the Israeli Arthur Lejwa Professor of Structural Biochemistry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biological Chemistry in Jerusalem, Israel.
[2] He earned bachelor's degree at the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and at the Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University.
[2] Arkin received a doctorate in Cell Biology from Yale University School of Medicine in 1996.
[6] He joined the faculty of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a senior lecturer in biochemistry.
[2] In 2009 he was appointed Head of the Authority for Research and Development at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.