Outgoing President Daniel Zajfman talks to The Jerusalem Post about education in Israel, personalized medicine, his love of physics, and “the Jewish genius”: rejection of authority, endless debate, and curiosity.
June 12, 2019
A fund launched by the Mortimer Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program seeks to match faculty members from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US and seven Israeli academic institutions in an effort to promote the “next generation of groundbreaking research” in sciences and technology. The new MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund is now calling for proposals from faculty members and research scientists for its inaugural round of seed funding to support collaborations between teams at MIT and their counterparts in Israel for research in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.
May 19, 2019
Thanks to the quality of its science and healthcare, Israel is becoming a world leader in the aging industry, says Israel21C. Two of the reasons for this: Weizmann’s Profs. Valery Krizhanovsky and Michal Schwartz.
May 01, 2019
Parkinson’s News Today discusses the research of Prof. Tamar Flash, who uses artificial intelligence – and takes inspiration from the octopus – to find ways to aid people with the disease.
April 23, 2019
As The Daily Mail reports, Dr. Gad Asher and colleagues in California have found that exercising at the end of the day can provide up to 50% better performance.
April 18, 2019
The Weizmann Institute’s Prof. Dan Yakir has won this year’s Israel Prize for Research in Geology, Earth Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences, for his groundbreaking insights into the impact of semi-arid forests on the global climate. “At the station he founded in the Yatir Forest, Prof. Yakir explores the interactions between the biosphere and the atmosphere, especially the ways in which vegetation influences the environment and the climate,” Education Minister Naftali Bennett tweeted.
April 02, 2019
Israel’s lunar lander – which Weizmann has been helping develop – is en route to the Moon. The XPRIZE Foundation, “inspired” by the effort, has announced creation of a new “Moonshot Award,” which the SpaceIL team will receive upon a successful landing.
March 28, 2019
Israel21C reports on 10 major Israeli research projects focused on circadian rhythm. Four projects are by Weizmann scientists: two by Prof. Gad Asher, one by Prof. Tsvee Lapidot, and one by Prof. Eran Segal.
March 25, 2019
The Jerusalem Post reports on a company established by a Weizmann Institute alum, Nir Erez, who left a job in big pharma to find a way to help cancer sufferers. His firm, Trial-In Pharma, connects patients to 20,000 clinical trials and compassionate use treatments worldwide.
March 24, 2019
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