About the Weizmann Institute of Science

The Weizmann Institute of Science is one of the world's leading multidisciplinary basic research institutions in the natural and exact sciences. The Institute's five faculties – Biology, Biological Chemistry, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science – are home to scientists and students who embark daily on fascinating journeys into the unknown, seeking to improve our understanding of nature and our place within it.

The Institute has been the venue of pioneering research in neuroscience, nanotechnology and alternative energy, the search for new ways of fighting disease and hunger and creating novel materials and developing new strategies for protecting the environment. Mathematicians and computer scientists working together with biologists are uncovering unseen patterns in everything from our DNA to the ways our cells age to personal nutrition. From participating in the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN to joining in scientific missions to the planets in our solar system, Weizmann Institute researchers are helping lead international science.

The campus comprises of 1.1sq km (280 acres) and includes over 240 buildings, research facilities, administration and housing; 2,500 faculty and staff; 1,400 students and postdocs

Research volume annually is of more than $100m total worth of grants for Weizmann Institute research projects.

At any one time, there are around 1,000 active grants from internal and external resources Weizmann Institute researchers obtain some 250-300 grants a year.

The research infrastructure at the Institute is comparable to that of the top institutes in the world. Examples include the Lorry I. Lokey Pre-Clinical Research Facility and the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine.

In recent years graduate students and postdocs working at the Institute arrived from over 40 countries (including Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Palestinian Authority, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA).

Although the focus of the Weizmann Institute is on basic research, it is no mistake that the first technology transfer company in the country was founded at the Weizmann Institute, nor that one of the first industrial science parks in the country was established on its borders. The Institute's impact ranges from the numbers of its graduates who have taken leadership and research positions in developing today's high-tech industries, to the findings arising from Institute labs that have made the transition to commercial and industrial application.