The 11th President of the Weizmann Institute and Four New Vice Presidents Take Office
Institute President, Prof. Alon Chen: “Our alumni provide the foundations of Israel’s booming economy.” 01.12.2019 The new team (l-r) Profs. Roee Ozeri, Ziv Reich, Alon Chen, Irit Sagi and Alon Harmelin The 11th president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof....
A better vaccine against Ebola?
Weizmann study may show the way BRIEFS DATE: NOVEMBER 19, 2019 A vaccine that protects against Ebola—one of the world’s deadliest viral diseases—was recently approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the first time any immunization against Ebola has passed this...
Q&A with Prof. Alon Chen
A lively conversation with the Weizmann Institute's incoming President Q&A DATE: OCTOBER 23, 2019 Prof. Alon Chen Prof. Alon Chen enters office as the next President of the Weizmann Institute on December 1. A world-renowned neuroscientist with a focus on stress,...
Passing the torch: Q&A with President Prof. Daniel Zajfman
DATE: OCTOBER 23, 2019 Prof. Daniel Zajfman Prof. Daniel Zajfman The new Nature survey, in which Weizmann was ranked #2 in research quality, indicates that the ‘Weizmann recipe’ is a good one: small but serious institutions are highly effective. What are the...
Neurobiology News
Three papers by Weizmann Institute of Science neuroscientists are slated to appear in the December issue of Nature Neuroscience. 12.11.2019 Our emotions play a central role in learning and memory, and they enable survival in a dynamic environment. Tamar...
An Exception to the Rule: An Intact Sense of Smell without a Crucial Olfactory Brain Structure
A handful of left-handed women have excellent senses of smell, despite lacking olfactory bulbs 06.11.2019 Computer-enhanced MRI images of the brains of left-handed women found two that were missing olfactory bulbs Is a pair of brain structures called the olfactory...
Five papers in one week published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlight Weizmann Institute research
5 in PNAS 24.10.2019 1 – An investigation into the way that double-stranded DNA unwinds for replication, repair or transcription, coauthored by Prof. Yaakov Levy of the Structural Biology Department, together with researchers in Italy, the UK and Spain. By combining...
Ebola Antibodies at Work
Scientists in Israel and Germany show, on the molecular level, how an experimental vaccine offers long-term protection against the disease 07.10.2019 The glycoprotein spike complex of the Ebola virus bound by a neutralizing antibody isolated from a vaccinated...
The Basic Bacterial Defense
A newly-discovered immune system in bacteria is the distance ancestor of one in our own cell 26.09.2019 E coli with and without active CBASS defenses against viral infection. Between 40 min. and and hour, those with active systems (l) committed suicide; while after an...
Cancer Protocols: A New Approach to Predicting Treatment Outcomes
Weizmann Institute of Science research shows heterogeneity in melanoma tumors prevents effective immune responses 12.09.2019 Diversity – at least among cancer cells – is not a good thing. Weizmann Institute of Science research shows that in melanoma, tumors with cells...