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South Korea Firm to Invest $10m in Weizmann Scientists’ Anti-Cancer Drug
South Korea Firm to Invest $10m in Weizmann Scientists’ Anti-Cancer Drug

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/south-korea-firm-to-invest-10m-in-weizmann-scientists-anti-cancer-drug/

Mar 20, 2019... Yeda CEO Gil Granot-Mayer (left to right) BioLeaders CEO, Dr. Young-Chul Park and Weizmann Institute Vice President for Technology Transfer Prof. Mordechai Sheves (Weizmann Institute of Science)
An anti-cancer therapy that has been developed by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Technology will get a $10 million investment from a South Korean biopharmaceutical company that is traded on the Korea Stock Exchange. This is the Korean firm’s first investment in an Israeli venture, the Weizmann Institute said in a statement.

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2019: A Year in Weizmann Science
2019: A Year in Weizmann Science

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/2019-a-year-in-weizmann-science/

Dec 05, 2019... We are nearing the end of 2019: time to look back on the Weizmann Institute’s year in science. The researchers were so productive that we can only touch on their many breakthroughs in fields from climate change to vaccines, Alzheimer’s disease to quantum computing, personalized cancer treatment to nutrition. Here are just a few of the year’s life-affirming advances:
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is transforming our world – and can save lives. Our scientists used machine learning to create a way to diagnose multiple myeloma before it turns cancerous. This means patients can be monitored with simple blood tests, enabling earlier treatment for multiple myeloma – and hopefully other cancers as well.

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When Scientific Journals Show Political Bias
When Scientific Journals Show Political Bias

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Dec 09, 2014... Daniel Zajfman
Scenes of war such as those coming out of Gaza naturally arouse emotions, including in “objective” reporters. Despite this human tendency, there is one end of the media spectrum – the end occupied by established, peer-reviewed, scientific journals – where we would normally expect to read articles that are impartial, unbiased scientific reports. Publishing based on scientific merit alone is one of the cornerstones of global science; without it, science could not advance as a coherent global endeavor.

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The Weizmann Institute of Science Receives 120 Million Dollars to Establish the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine
The Weizmann Institute of Science Receives 120 Million Dollars to Establish the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine

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Nov 11, 2013... The new Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine will be housed in the repurposed "Solar Tower."
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—November 13, 2013—The Weizmann Institute of Science is establishing, on its campus, the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine. This facility will serve Israel’s entire life sciences and biomedical research community, including academic scientists, MDs working in hospital research labs, and researchers in the biomedical industry.

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Jerusalem Girls Win the Telescope
Jerusalem Girls Win the Telescope

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Mar 07, 2016... South Korean astronaut Yi So-yeon (center) and two members of the winning team from Jerusalem’s Pelech Religious Experimental High School for Girls
A class of 9th-grade girls from Jerusalem were the winners of this year’s Ilan Ramon Space Olympics for junior high school students. In addition to receiving a telescope for their school, they and the students from the other 11 classes that reached the final round of the competition had a day at the Weizmann Institute of Science that included a talk from a female astronaut – South Korea’s Yi So-yeon.

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Using Young Cells to Fight Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Using Young Cells to Fight Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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Aug 30, 2016... Image via GeebShot/Shutterstock.com
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness in people over age 60. About 90 percent of those with AMD have the “dry” form for which there is no approved therapy.
And so the race is on to find a cure. The potential is huge, as products for treating the much smaller population of those with wet AMD ring up about $5 billion in annual sales.

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Focus Funding on Individual Scientists to Get the Best Results
Focus Funding on Individual Scientists to Get the Best Results

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/focus-funding-on-individual-scientists-to-get-the-best-results/

Jul 16, 2019... For Daniel Zajfman, physicist and president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, the formula for a successful university is quite simple.
“You focus all your funding on individuals; the ones who can move the needle on an issue,” Zajfman told Science|Business. “We give our researchers full labs and full funding from day one, and total independence to work. They don’t have to report to anyone; they don’t have a boss.” The pressure is all on them.

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Stepping Stone
Stepping Stone

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Oct 25, 2018... Tony Pan in a research lab at the Weizmann Institute this past summer. Courtesy Tony Pan
While many of his peers spent the summer gearing up for college, Tony Pan of Grosse Pointe Farms traveled to Israel to work in a lab at one of the world’s foremost scientific research institutions.
Thanks to a scholarship from the Borman family of Bloomfield Hills, Pan was one of 19 American teens participating in the 50th annual Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, a global leader in scientific disciplines, from cancer to alternative energy to space exploration.

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Weizmann Institute of Science Receives Israel Presidents and Prime Ministers Memorial Prize
Weizmann Institute of Science Receives Israel Presidents and Prime Ministers Memorial Prize

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/weizmann-institute-of-science-receives-israel-presidents-and-prime-ministers-memorial-prize/

Apr 22, 2009... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 22, 2009—The Israel Presidents and Prime Ministers Memorial Prize was awarded to the Weizmann Institute of Science by President Shimon Peres for preserving the heritage of Israel’s first president, Dr. Chaim Weizmann. The Institute was honored for initiating a program that brings outstanding young scientists living abroad back to Israel.
Dr. Maya Schuldiner of the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Molecular Genetics, one of the 34 scientists who joined the Institute faculty during the past three years, said: “Six months ago, my husband Oren (who has also become a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute) and I returned to Israel after our postdoctoral studies in San Francisco. Even though we enjoyed living in this beautiful city which has some of the best universities in the world, not a day went by that we didn’t miss Israel. Other Israelis we met there also missed home. To my disappointment, and to theirs, many of them will not return home, as this would jeopardize their job satisfaction, their standard of living, and the level of education for their children. The Weizmann Institute enables us to engage in world-class science—with the same equipment and under the same conditions as those available at the best universities in the world—without giving up on our identities, without losing the possibility of raising our children as Israelis, and without having to miss our country. If only as many young Israeli scientists as possible could be as lucky as we are, and be able to return home.”

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Student spotlight: Soyeun Yang, senior, Fairview High School
Student spotlight: Soyeun Yang, senior, Fairview High School

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/student-spotlight-soyeun-yang-senior-fairview-high-school/

May 20, 2012... Soyeun has been involved in scientific research during the past few years. She began research at the University of Colorado during her junior year, studying nanoparticle applications. Throughout last summer, she worked as a research assistant at the Children's Hospital, studying mineral deficiency in developing countries.
Recently, she was accepted to the 44th Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute as one of 19 Americans. Through the program, she is receiving a full scholarship to conduct scientific research in July at the Weizmann Institute in Israel with 74 other students from all over the world.

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