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Fighting Cancer
Immunotherapy: Cancer Treatment Based on Weizmann Research is Saving Lives
E-News March 2016
Weizmann Institute basic research is, yet again, behind the headlines: a new blood cancer therapy that uses one's own immune system to defeat the disease is stunning clinicians and giving patients hope. Trials in the U.S. have had amazing results, with critically ill leukemia patients now in remission. The breakthrough is based on decades of research by Weizmann's Prof. Zelig Eshhar, who is now working to adapt his method to other forms of cancer.
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Improving Health & Medicine
Lymphedema: What It is, What's Being Done About It, and How You Can Help
Lymphedema is a too-unknown condition involving severe swelling that affects about 10 million Americans, most of them cancer survivors. Learn what lymphedema is and about the research and organizations that are trying to help – and sign a petition at Change.org to establish World Lymphedema Day.
March 11, 2016
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Inaugural Women for Science Virtual Conference
The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science hosted the first Women for Science (W4S) virtual conference, linking over 100 attendees to the Weizmann Institute campus from seven video conferencing sites across the U.S. Live from Rehovot, Prof. Idit Shachar, Head of the Department of Immunology and incumbent of the Dr. Morton and Anne Kleiman Professorial Chair, discussed the role of immune cells in health and disease.
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Improving Health & Medicine
February is American Heart Month
E-News, February 2016
Our hearts mean many things: love, strength, loyalty. But even if we look at hearts from a purely biological perspective, they are still awesome – and complicated, particularly when it comes to disease. That's why, for American Heart Month, we'd like to share some of the many approaches Weizmann Institute scientists are taking to fight heart disease.
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Improving Health & Medicine
Weizmann Institute Helps Teen Entrepreneur Improve Diabetes Management
A casual conversation about dealing with her diabetes gave Rebecca Perl an idea: an app to help diabetics. The American Committee connected her with Prof. Michael Walker, renowned diabetes researcher, for help; the result is a startup that aims to create an app, implant, and insulin pump. The American Committee talks with Rebecca about becoming a biotech entrepreneur.
February 01, 2016
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Exploring the Physical World
Truly Reaching for the Stars in 2016
E-News, January 2016
From the Mars rovers to the Star Wars reboot, interest in space hasn't been this high since America's moon landing. And once again, the Weizmann Institute is ahead of the curve: with some of the world's brightest young astrophysicists on campus, we are not only putting Israel on the star map, but advancing knowledge for all humankind.
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Advancing Technology
Dr. Michal Leskes: Energizing the Future
Weizmann International Magazine of Science and People, Fall 2015
The Institute's postdoc award for women in science, funded by generous donors, supports talented Israeli women such as Dr. Michal Leskes. The award meant she could do her postdoc at Cambridge; today, at the Weizmann Institute, her work includes improving the lithium-ion batteries we use for everything from cell phones to electric cars.
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Fighting Cancer
Using Basic Science to Advance Cancer Research
Weizmann Views, Issue No. 40
Prof. Moshe Oren has spent decades studying the p53 gene, which plays a key role in keeping healthy cells from turning cancerous. His basic research has inspired other scientists to build on his findings, potentially leading to p53-based cancer treatments. As head of the Moross Integrated Cancer Center, Prof. Oren's knowledge will be more valuable than ever.
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Improving Health & Medicine
Is Your Microbiome Undermining Your New Year's Resolution?
E-News, December 2015
The perennially most popular New Year's resolution is to lose weight and be healthy – and yet most people fail. But why? Thanks to the Weizmann Institute, we now have the answer. And it's not your fault; it's your microbiome's. The Personalized Nutrition Project's surprising results show that what you eat does matter – but maybe not in the way you think.