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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 future of humanity.
Jan 13, 2015...
Conferment of Degrees 2014, Feinberg Graduate School
NEW YORK, NY—January 13, 2015—The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science is pleased to announce the award of $700,000 by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program to support student training at the Feinberg Graduate School (FGS) at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Rehovot, Israel. The award, made to the Trustees of the Feinberg Graduate School, will help the school improve and develop instructional and research activities in genome-based biomedicine and other important academic programs.
Aug 07, 2018...
Israeli Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath, who is also a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, at a press conference in Rehovot. (Flash90)
RIO DE JANEIRO — Ecuador’s National Congress honored an Israeli Nobel laureate.
Ada Yonath, who won the 2009 prize for chemistry, received a medal of scientific merit from the National Assembly’s president, Elizabeth Cabezas, at a ceremony Thursday in Quito, newspaper El Telegrafo reported.
May 29, 2018...
Weizmann Institute of Science. (photo credit: Courtesy)
The Center for World University Rankings, initiated in Saudi Arabia and headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, has ranked the Weizmann Institute of Science among the top 50 degree-granting institutions in the world.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University were also ranked in the top 100, placing at 61 and 85, respectively. The Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology ranked 147th, while Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ranked 394th. Bar-Ilan University and the University of Haifa rounded out the list of Israeli universities, ranking at 492 and 620, respectively.
Jul 06, 2011... NEW YORK, NY—July 6, 2011— The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has once again been named as the "best place to work in academia" outside the United States by The Scientist magazine, which recently released the results of its ninth annual survey. This is the third time that the Weizmann Institute has been ranked by respondents as the top international institution. It has also appeared second on the list several times, including in 2010. The results from this year's survey are published in the July 2011 edition of The Scientist.
Feb 25, 2020...
After investing $26 million in research during the past 15 years, NETRF has helped to establish the NET knowledge base needed to expand the exploration of improved treatments, according to Elyse Gellerman, NETRF Chief Executive Officer. “We can see real momentum in this new round of grants. We hope the discoveries from these projects will lead to improved treatment options for patients.”
NETRF is supporting a new pioneering approach to NET immunotherapy with a Petersen Accelerator Award to Steven Libutti, MD, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, to characterize a novel immune regulator called B7x to determine whether it has a role in shutting off the body’s immune response to fight against pancreatic NETs.
Mar 19, 2019...
Mina J. Bissell. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)
Mina Bissell, a distinguished scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been selected to receive two prestigious awards for her pioneering contributions to breast cancer biology and medicine.
In recognition of her lifetime achievements, including her extraordinary insights into how a cell’s local environment impacts gene expression and tumor formation, the American Philosophical Society (APS) has chosen Bissell as the recipient of the Jonathan E. Rhoads Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Medicine. The honor is given only once every three years.
Oct 03, 2017...
Conferment of Degrees 2016, Feinberg Graduate School
NEW YORK, NY—October 3, 2017—The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science is pleased to announce the award of $1,200,000 by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program to the Feinberg Graduate School (FGS) at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. The award, made to the Trustees of the Feinberg Graduate School, will support the purchase of critical instrumentation for the newly established Food and Environmental Metabolomics Lab (FEM-Lab).
Jun 22, 2010...
World-renowned immunologist Prof. Ruth Arnon of the Weizmann Institute has been named the new – and first woman – president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the Humanities, since 1961 the government's official adviser on science and planning of civilian research.
She replaces Prof. Menahem Ya'ari, who held the position for two three-year terms.
The academy also announced on Monday that Arnon's vice president will be Prof. Binyamin Ze'ev Kedar. Both were elected at a general assembly of 100 academy members, and they will take office around Rosh Hashana. The social sciences and humanities are represented in the academy along with the exact sciences.
Jul 20, 2015...
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—July 20, 2015—The Weizmann Institute of Science has been ranked 10th in an international research ranking. The ranking is conducted by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University, the Netherlands. The Weizmann Institute is the only one of the top 10 research institutes that is outside the U.S.
The CWTS Leiden Ranking is based on numeric indicators alone, rather than question-based surveys. These include publishing statistics for the scientists of the various universities and citation data for the papers – numbers that reflect the quality of the papers. These statistics are weighted according to the size of the research institute or university.
Nov 05, 2008...
NEW YORK, NY—November 5, 2008—The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel was ranked the best international academic institution for which to work by The Scientist magazine. Participants in the magazine’s annual survey of “Best Places to Work in Academia” cited Weizmann’s research resources, infrastructure, and work environment as particular strengths.
The survey, published in The Scientist’s November issue, reviewed entries from over 2,300 qualified respondents. These respondents represented a total of 73 institutions: 54 from the U.S. and 19 from abroad. Survey respondents were asked to assess their work environments by indicating their level of agreement with 41 criteria, in eight different areas. Categories included the quality of mentoring, infrastructure and environment, pay, research resources, and tenure.
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