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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the benefit of humanity.
While population-wide lockdown policies reduce the number of new COVID-19 infections, these same policies have dramatically slowed economies around the world. High unemployment, bankruptcies, and crashing markets are the standard-bearers for this new economic pandemic, with a variety of other costs...
May 06, 2020
Dr. Nir London “has brought together a wide range of players … to accelerate the development of a drug against COVID-19,” says Express Healthcare in this interview.
May 05, 2020
Among more than 50 Weizmann Institute labs seeking answers about the coronavirus pandemic, one team is focusing on an early warning sign that might lead to the early diagnosis of COVID-19: the loss of a sense of smell.
May 04, 2020
In this video, Profs. Ron Milo and Uri Alon succinctly and clearly explain their “intermittent work” strategy for restarting the economy without triggering a new wave of COVID infections.
May 04, 2020
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 30, 2020—If an unconscious person responds to smell through a slight change in their nasal airflow pattern, they are likely to regain consciousness. This is the conclusion from a new study conducted by Weizmann Institute scientists and colleagues at Israel’s Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital.
April 30, 2020
Determining whether people in a vegetative state are conscious has long been a serious challenge. Now, as STAT reports, Prof. Noam Sobel’s team has developed a simple “sniff test” that can even predict likelihood of awakening.
April 29, 2020
Dr. Ori Avinoam of Weizmann’s Department of Biomolecular Sciences presents an overview of his lab’s coronavirus research. His team has created a pseudovirus, which has all the elements of the coronavirus but is not infectious.
April 28, 2020
Public health expert Prof. Gabi Barbash outlines the pandemic’s many unknowns: How many people are asymptomatic and yet spreading the virus? Why do some patients have mild symptoms, while others become severely ill? Are recovered patients with coronavirus antibodies now immune?
April 27, 2020
On May 2, 1986, while visiting my long-term colleague and friend Richard O’Reilly, the head of bone marrow transplantation at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, I received a strange phone call. It was from Richard Champlin, who worked at the Bone Marrow Transplant Center at UCLA. He tended to speak very fast, so it took me some time to understand from his over-excited voice that he was about to leave the next day for Moscow.
April 27, 2020
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