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.
Seeing a clear need for a fresh approach to cancer research, the Weizmann Institute established the Moross Integrated Cancer Center (MICC). By collaborating with researchers and physicians; focusing on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment; and working to move therapies from the lab to the clinic, the MICC is a powerful new weapon in the war on cancer.
January 28, 2015
The dry riverbeds, lakes, and valleys on Mars indicate that water once flowed there – but when? And how? Weizmann's Dr. Itay Halevy and Brown's Dr. James Head III have an interesting new answer: short, violent periods of intense volcanic activity that warmed the planet and turned ice into running water, which later froze again.
Dr. Berta Strulovici, director of the Weizmann Institute's Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, explains how personalized, or ""precision,"" medicine uses information about a person's genes, proteins, and environment to prevent, diagnose, and treat patients – a ""proactive rather than reactive"" approach.
The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth's surface – and rising. As our weather changes, Weizmann Institute scientists are studying the ocean, using everything from microscopes to satellites, to understand its relationship with our climate. What will the future bring?
