About Us
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.
After earning his master's at Weizmann's Feinberg Graduate School, Eran Hodis, 29, discovered two of the most common genetic mutations in all of cancer. Now an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard and MIT, he credits Weizmann—and in particular, his mentors Profs. Eran Segal and Joel Sussman—with launching his scientific career.
For 20 years, the International Physics Tournament has transformed the lives of students around the world. This exciting competition challenges teams of high school students to use the principles of physics to design impenetrable safes. Each spring, teams compete to unlock one another's safes during the tournament's final round in Israel.
Under quantum theory, particles can be in different places, in different states, doing different things – at the same time. And computers based on these principles might complete, reasonably quickly, calculations that would take today's computers a million years. Weizmann scientists are leading the quest to develop the next generation of computers.
July 23, 2015
The summer before she entered college, Dr. Shari-Lynn Odzer spent a month on the Institute's campus as part of the Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI). More than three decades later, her daughter Jamie followed in her footsteps.
Prof. Yair Reisner is expert at tricking the immune system into accepting trans¬plants it would normally reject. He made a lifesaving breakthrough that lets immunocompromised patients receive bone marrow from a mismatched donor, then expanded the method to leukemia patients – and as if that's not enough, he's now applying it to organ transplants.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among American men. That's why Prof. Avigdor Scherz, collaborating with other leading cancer researchers, is developing a promising new treatment: vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy, or VTP. Now in clinical trials, VTP uses light and a unique drug to destroy prostate tumors.
May is Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month: the perfect opportunity to learn more about the disease – and what the Weizmann Institute of Science is doing to help.
With spring comes thoughts of renewal, change, and the future. In a harbinger of great things to come, six extraordinary PhD students from the Weizmann Institute's Feinberg Graduate School visited the U.S., describing their research to supporters across the country. These “scientists of the future” are already making the world a better place.
Is the long winter bringing you down? Do TV and comfort food sound better than going out? If so, you might be among the 11 million Americans who get the winter blues. Remedies for seasonal depression are limited – but happily, the Weizmann Institute is working hard to shine light on depression's many causes, offering the hope of new, improved treatments.
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