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Weizmann Alum Named to Forbes's ""30 Under 30"" List
Weizmann Alum Named to Forbes's ""30 Under 30"" List

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/weizmann-alum-named-to-forbes-s-30-under-30-list/

Sep 09, 2015... At 29, Eran Hodis has achieved what many scientists dream of accomplishing in a lifetime: He discovered two of the most common genetic mutations in all of cancer. His work has global implications and could, in the future, lead to more effective cancer therapies. This year, in recognition of his scientific achievements, Hodis was named to Forbes’s prestigious “30 under 30” list.
“Without a doubt, my Weizmann training made that possible,” said Hodis, who earned his master’s in bioinformatics at Weizmann’s Feinberg Graduate School.

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On the Probiotic Trail
On the Probiotic Trail

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/on-the-probiotic-trail/

May 08, 2012... Naama Geva-Zatorsky in the lab. JTA
Jerusalem — She’s young, smart and aims to help treat life-threatening diseases. Naama Geva-Zatorsky, 34, is among a growing number of Israeli women scientists who are gaining recognition for their contributions to scientific research.
The Weizmann Institute biologist was in Paris last month to accept the International UNESCO L’Oreal Prize for Women in Science. Dubbed “Europe’s top young researcher” by the prize committee, she received a two-year, $40,000 fellowship for her postdoctoral work at Harvard University.

TAGS: Awards, Women, Biology, Immune system, Bacteria

Science Tips, March 2015
Science Tips, March 2015

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-march-2015/

Mar 02, 2015... Manot Cave cranium
A partial human skull unearthed in 2008 in northern Israel may hold some clues as to when and where humans and Neanderthals might have interbred. The key to addressing this, as well as other important issues, is precisely determining the age of the skull. A combination of dating methods, one of them performed by Dr. Elisabetta Boaretto, head of the Weizmann Institute’s D-REAMS (DANGOOR Research Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) laboratory, has made it possible to define the period of time that the cave was occupied and, thus, the skull’s age. The combined dating provides evidence that Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis could have lived side by side in the area.

TAGS: Astrophysics, Archaeology, Awards, Women, Education, Biology, Humanity, Materials

Weizmann Institute of Science is Sixth in the World in the Nature Index of Innovation, and First Outside the U.S.
Weizmann Institute of Science is Sixth in the World in the Nature Index of Innovation, and First Outside the U.S.

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Aug 09, 2017... The Weizmann Institute of Science: We recruit scientists who are among the best in the world and let them follow their curiosity
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 9, 2017—The Nature Index of Innovation, published August 9, 2017, places the Weizmann Institute of Science in sixth place in an international ranking of the world’s top 200 research institutions. To determine placements, the Nature Index – affiliated with renowned scientific journal Nature – examined how research articles are cited in third-party patents, then ranked the institutions according to the impact produced by their academic research.

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Weizmann Institute is Number One in ERC Grants
Weizmann Institute is Number One in ERC Grants

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/weizmann-institute-is-number-one-in-erc-grants/

Apr 02, 2015... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 2, 2015—An analysis of the average success rates for all European Research Council (ERC) grants awarded during the 7th Framework Programme (FP7), 2007 – 2013, gave the Weizmann Institute of Science the top score: it has had 35% of its ERC grant proposals approved, while in comparison, the Israeli average is 18%, and the success rate of all ERC proposals is around 10%. And in absolute numbers of grants – a metric that puts the Institute in direct competition with much larger institutions – the Weizmann Institute was number six, with a total of 82 grants worth nearly €150 million (more than $165 million).

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Israel Prize to Prof. Dan Yakir
Israel Prize to Prof. Dan Yakir

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/israel-prize-to-prof-dan-yakir/

Apr 02, 2019... Prof. Dan Yakir
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.

TAGS: Environment, Awards, Climate change

XPRIZE Foundation Announces $1 Million ‘Moonshot Award’ for Technical Achievements Outside of an Active XPRIZE Competition
XPRIZE Foundation Announces $1 Million ‘Moonshot Award’ for Technical Achievements Outside of an Active XPRIZE Competition

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/xprize-foundation-announces-1-million-moonshot-award/

Mar 28, 2019... LOS ANGELES (March 28, 2019) —XPRIZE, the global leader in designing and operating world-changing incentive competitions, announces that it will offer a $1 million Moonshot Award in recognition of an XPRIZE team demonstrating the achievement of a “moonshot” technological feat outside the parameters or timeframe of an XPRIZE competition.
The Award is inspired by SpaceIL, a former Google Lunar XPRIZE team, whose mission to become the first private, non-government entity to land on the surface of the Moon is underway, with an anticipated landing on April 11, 2019. A successful lunar landing will result in SpaceIL receiving the inaugural Moonshot Award from XPRIZE.

TAGS: Astrophysics, Space, Awards, Philanthropy

Israeli Team Takes Medals in Math Olympiad
Israeli Team Takes Medals in Math Olympiad

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/israeli-team-takes-medals-in-math-olympiad/

Jul 28, 2013... The Israeli math team.
The team that represented Israel at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Santa Marta, Colombia, has won six medals – one gold, three silver, and two bronze. The Israeli team was ranked 13th among 97 participating countries.
Team members are “graduates” of national Olympiads – the Joseph Gillis National Math Olympiad for high school and the Zuta Math Olympiad for junior high school students – held at the Davidson Institute of Science Education, the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The team took part in a two-week training camp in early June, as well as training sessions held over the three months that preceded the competition. They were coached by Lev Radzivilovsky, together with Prof. Dmitry Novikov of the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Mathematics.

TAGS: Culture, Community, Awards, Mathematics

Weizmann Institute Scientist Becomes UNESCO Laureate
Weizmann Institute Scientist Becomes UNESCO Laureate

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/weizmann-institute-scientist-becomes-unesco-laureate/

Mar 07, 2011... Men won most of the Nobel Prizes in the 20th century; with new awards, outstanding women now have a chance to catch up.
A young Israeli scientist from the Weizmann Institute of Science who is studying the effect of consciousness on memory in people with neurological disease has become a laureate of the UNESCO L'Oreal Foundation in Paris, along with 14 other women from around the world.
Dr. Hagar Gelbard-Sagiv, 32, who went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with her husband and children a year ago to continue her research, believes that her work could lead to advances in chronic disease.

TAGS: Culture, Awards, Women, Brain, Memory

IVF Pioneer Among Those Receiving Honorary Doctorates from the Weizmann Institute of Science
IVF Pioneer Among Those Receiving Honorary Doctorates from the Weizmann Institute of Science

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/ivf-pioneer-among-those-receiving-honorary-doctorates-from-the-weizmann-institute-of-science/

Nov 08, 2015... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—November 8, 2015—On Monday, November 9, 2015, Prof. Lord Robert Winston and Israeli musician Shlomo Bar joined two Nobel laureates and two distinguished philanthropists to receive honorary doctorates from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Prof. Lord Robert Winston, the event’s keynote speaker, is a world-renowned fertility expert, a pioneer of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and the treatment of female reproductive diseases. He has taught physicians from 80 countries and is a gifted communicator of often-complex science to the public through popular science books, TV programs, and lectures.

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