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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.
February 09, 2016
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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.
January 19, 2016
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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.
January 13, 2016
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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.
January 05, 2016
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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.
December 21, 2015
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Enriching Education
Weizmann Alum Named to Forbes's ""30 Under 30"" List
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.
September 09, 2015
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Advancing Technology
Will Quantum Physics Revolutionize the Digital World?
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
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Enriching Education
A Mother and Daughter's Weizmann Journey: Shari-Lynn and Jamie Odzer
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.
July 15, 2015