News

• May 22, 2019

  The Academy’s Committee for Adams Fellowships congratulates Eran Lustig on his publication as first author in Nature.

  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0943-7  

• May 22, 2019

  Congratulations to Mr. Sylvan Adams upon receiving an Honorary Doctorate from Tel Aviv University.

  Following is a link to a brief clip on Sylvan Adams and his receipt of the degree: 

• May 1, 2019

  Congratulations to Dr Ido Sagi for winning the Kaye Innovation Award for 2017 for his stem cell research at the Azrieli Center of Stem Cells and Genetic Research of the Hebrew University. His research, with Prof. Nissim Benvenistry, Director of the Azrieli Center, yielded the first successful isolation and maintenance of haploid embryonic stem cells in humans. Based on this research, Yissum, The Technology Transfer company of the Hebrew University, launched the company New Stem, which is developing a diagnostic kit for predicting resistance to chemotherapy treatments.

• October 18, 2018

  Congratulations to Michal Natan upon winning the IVS (Israel Vacuum Society) Female Scientist Award

• October 15, 2018

  Congratulations to Yoav Lahini upon his appointment to a faculty position in the Center for Light Matter Interaction of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University.

  Yoav’s group is focused on the experimental study of soft matter and biophysical systems using smart illumination and advanced imaging, microscopy and nanoscopy techniques.

• October 10, 2018

  Congratulations to Sivan Refaely-Abramson upon her appointment as Senior Scientist in the Department of Materials and Interfaces of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

• September 15, 2018

  Congratulations to Yannai Gonczarowski upon winning the 2018 ACM SIGecom award for Best Presentation by a Student or Postdoctoral Researcher. The award is given “to an oral presentation of outstanding quality delivered at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation” (the top-tier conference of Algorithmic Game Theory).

• August 1, 2018

  Congratulations to Ronen Gabizon on his new appointment as a Senior Intern at the Weizmann Institute in The London Lab of Chemical Biology and Drug Design

• July 19, 2018

  Congratulations to Klim Efremenko on his new position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Ben-Gurion University. Behatzlacha!

• July 19, 2018

  Congratulations to Uri Roll on his new appointment as Senior Lecturer at the Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology of Ben-Gurion University