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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.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/video-gallery/weizmann-institute-2015-year-at-a-glance/
Nov 25, 2015... Prof. Daniel Zajfman, Weizmann Institute president, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the campus as we look back at its amazing progress in 2015. One of the Institute's ongoing priorities is the recruitment of the best new scientists – in 2015, it brought aboard...
Mar 10, 2014...
Weizmann Institute scientists, Clalit Health Services physicians and legal advisor, and information system experts from both organizations recently participated in the first meeting of its kind, intended to promote collaborative research that will enable the development of new models of medical intervention, as well as advance the field of personalized medicine.
The meeting was sponsored by the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, which was recently established on the Weizmann Institute campus at a cost of $120 million. Participants explored, among other things, ways in which medical data and research provided by Clalit Health Services can be used, with the aim of advancing both scientific research and medicine.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/the-tomorrow-lab-summit/
May 14, 2013...
“The planets have a beat,” said Dr. Oded Aharonson, snapping his fingers. Skyped in from Israel into a Manhattan boardroom on May 10, Aharonson is a scientist who has operated the rover on Mars. Some of his pictures of Titan are among those that have given us, on earth, a more accurate perspective on what it means to live in a solar system.
He held up a basketball, partly because he needed a round object to show the oscillations of the earth’s climate cycles and partly because the Tomorrow Lab Summit was being hosted by and is a community partner of NBA Cares. NBA Commissioner David Stern was one of the two men at the head of the table and the other was Marshall Levin, the President and CEO of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, the organization that created the Tomorrow Lab project to support the mission of science for the benefit of humanity.
Jun 17, 2011... Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, interviews Prof. Daniel Zajfman, president of the Weizmann Institute, during the 2011 gala held by the American Committee's New York Region. Mr. Heyward asked Prof. Zajfman not only about science—although that was eloquently addressed—but about his Brussels childhood, early interest in science, and more.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/father-runs-and-writes-to-help-his-children/
Jul 02, 2013...
Jonathan Hersch and his son, Ben, practice for a race to benefit Ben and Shira’s Endowment Fund for Diabetes Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Photos courtesy Jonathan Hersch
For his entire life, Jonathan Hersch has been running, as a track star and marathon racer. But now his goal is beyond the finish line.
The Edison resident is the father of two children with diabetes, and he is donating part of the proceeds of a book he wrote on these two facets of his life — Relax and Go: On Running and Surviving Parental Trauma — to help advance research on the disease being conducted in Israel.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/creative-giving-ira-rmds-for-israel/
May 20, 2016...
Back in 2009, Carol Milett committed $150,000 as a bequest for lung cancer research to the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science to honor her late husband. But then she had a change of heart. Why wait until she died?
“I decided he has always been in my heart and soul. I should do something now for Herb while I’m still alive,” she says.
Milett’s Ambulance Gift Sparked More Donations: “I continue doing what makes me feel good–giving does.”
Dec 10, 2018...
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 10, 2018—In an effort to advance basic research insights for the benefit of therapeutic discoveries, the Weizmann Institute of Science is establishing the Dr. Barry Sherman Institute for Medicinal Chemistry, thanks to a major gift from the Sherman family.
The Sherman Institute for Medicinal Chemistry will fund innovative research on compounds that hold promise for becoming therapies for a range of human diseases and disorders, including autoimmune diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and infectious diseases.
Apr 05, 2016... NEW YORK, NY—April 5, 2016—The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science today launched Project-Based Fundraising, a digital platform that enables donors to fund a scientific research project that matches their passions and interests. Partnering with the crowdfunding site CrowdRise, Project-Based Fundraising offers supporters a selection of 12 vital projects at the Weizmann Institute, one of the world’s top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions.
Feb 16, 2016...
Peter Gruber International Academy students in Israel
On Feb. 5, six Peter Gruber International Academy (PGIA) students embarked on a journey across the world to attend a three-day science program at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, just south of Tel Aviv. The Weizmann Institute of Science is one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary research institutions in the natural and exact sciences. The institute has a long history of investigation and discovery rooted in a mission of advancing science for the benefit of humanity.
Oct 29, 2014... Prof. Deborah Fass speaks at the Partners in Innovation session of the Weizmann Institute's 2014 Global Gathering about her work with proteins. There are so many types of proteins that the total number is about the number of observable stars in the universe. ""Each of us,"" says Prof. Fass, ""is an entire protein universe."" Prof. Haim Garty introduces her.
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