Vera and John Schwartz The new Vera and John Schwartz Family Center for Metabolic Biology will advance cutting-edge ... Date: October 18, 2017
The wonders of water As the global population continues to rise, Weizmann Institute scientists are innovating new... Date: October 17, 2017
Kite Pharma sold for $11.9 billion Gilead Sciences Inc. will pay $11.9 billion for Kite Pharma, a California-based company that... Date: August 29, 2017
The Weizmann House The residence that Dr. Weizmann called home is being re-opened to the public, after undergoing a... Date: June 28, 2017
Investigations of no small matter Dr. Lorne Levinson is a man of many hats, and his work wearing one of them—as the electronics... Date: June 14, 2017
Keeping data private in a public world Israel is a world leader in data security, and that leadership can be traced directly to the... Date: April 5, 2017
Israel Prize in Life Sciences Prof. Yosef Yarden, a member of the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Biological Regulation,... Date: March 26, 2017
Seymour Hecker & Bob Yocum Sy Hecker’s presence in Tel Aviv upon the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948 and... Date: March 26, 2017
Michael de Picciotto Created as a key component of the Moross Integrated Cancer Center (MICC), the de Picciotto-... Date: March 26, 2017
André Deloro Building Excellence’ was the theme of the International Board, reflecting a large number of... Date: March 26, 2017
How did the Moon form? Although it is a cross-cultural symbol of serenity, when the Moon first made its appearance a... Date: March 26, 2017
Tribute to Robert Parienti in Paris On November 22, the Weizmann Institute celebrated the life and career of Robert Parienti, Delegate... Date: March 26, 2017
New hope for ALS patients Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, will forever be associated with the... Date: March 26, 2017
Resolution revolution Since their invention in the 1600s, microscopes have opened the window on human and plant... Date: March 26, 2017
A philosophy for philanthropy Thanksgiving dinner wasn’t just a family feast in Blythe Brenden’s family. “We kind of had to... Date: March 26, 2017
Apple, honey, and popcorn Members of the Science Club of the Israel Association of Friends of the Weizmann Institute gathered... Date: January 29, 2017
Weizmann ISEF alumni today Forty years ago an ambitious scholarship program for Israelis from immigrant and underserved... Date: January 29, 2017
Epic science Science can reveal much about the world in which we live, but can also yield fascinating... Date: January 29, 2017
PhD honoris causa recipient: Prof. Michael O. Rabin Prof. Michael O. Rabin is a founder of computer science and one of its most prominent... Date: November 7, 2016
PhD honoris causa recipient: Prof. Jean-Pierre Changeux Prof. Jean-Pierre Changeux is a renowned neuroscientist and an influential cultural figure at... Date: November 7, 2016
PhD honoris causa recipient: Laura Wolfson Townsley The Hon. Laura Wolfson Townsley is Chair of the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust and a Trustee of... Date: November 7, 2016
PhD honoris causa recipient: Agi Mishol Agi Mishol is one of Israel's greatest and most beloved poets of our generation. Her writing... Date: November 7, 2016
PhD honoris causa recipient: Sami Sagol Sami Sagol combines a successful business career with a lifetime of exemplary social involvement... Date: November 7, 2016
PhD honoris causa recipient: Stephen Grand Stephen M. Grand grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of... Date: November 7, 2016
Rina Mayer Few family histories are as deeply intertwined with the history of the Weizmann Institute of... Date: November 3, 2016
Prof. Michael Sela The illustrious career of immunologist Prof. Michael Sela has resulted in a widely prescribed... Date: November 3, 2016
Dr. Merry Rubin Sherman When Merry Sherman was a PhD student at the UC-Berkeley in the 1960s, she attended a course by... Date: September 25, 2016
Our new Doctors of Philosophy, honoris causa In a special session of the Annual General Meeting, the Weizmann Institute recognized the... Date: September 25, 2016
The future of the past Judy and David Dangoor established the Dangoor-Research Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (D-REAMS)... Date: September 25, 2016
The evolving man-machine partnership As much as we love our computers, we humans—not the systems we design—have always maintained the... Date: September 25, 2016
Prof. Marcus du Sautoy Curiosity may have no boundaries, but will we ever reach a point at which we know everything? Date: September 25, 2016
Dr. Celia Zwillenberg-Fridman and Dr. Kobi Abramson The roots of Celia Zwillenberg-Fridman’s giving to the Weizmann Institute are literally in the... Date: September 25, 2016
A force to be reckoned with Our immune systems keep watch over our bodies from head to toe. Thanks to scientists’ expanding... Date: September 25, 2016
Where discussion drives discovery The massive laboratories where scientists probe the nature of the universe—think the Large... Date: September 25, 2016
What in the world is dark matter? What would you do if you discovered that a big chunk of the universe is missing? Date: July 31, 2016
Grass roots discovery Humans and cows may have vastly different diets, but how different is the way each species... Date: June 26, 2016
MIT’s Prof. Barbara Liskov The 12th Weizmann Women & Science Award-winner is an American computer scientist whose ideas... Date: April 3, 2016
Poetic justice Today, most everyone takes it for granted that cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke are bad... Date: March 27, 2016
Jeremy Wertheimer Jeremy Wertheimer of Brookline, Massachusetts, was recognized at the International Board for his... Date: March 27, 2016
The Bench-to- Bedside Project Two of the most exciting scientific revolutions of our time—genomics and big data science—... Date: March 27, 2016
Mario Livio Professor Mario Livio’s tenure as a theoretical astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science... Date: March 27, 2016
House of Commons reception for ISSI alumni Weizmann UK started the year on a high note with a reception held at the House of Commons for... Date: March 27, 2016
Prof. Victor Malka The tall, white Koffler Accelerator on the Weizmann Institute campus is the icon of Israeli... Date: March 27, 2016
The 67th General Meeting of the International Board The theme of this year’s General Meeting of the International Board was the thread that wove... Date: March 27, 2016
Literal ray of hope A therapy for prostate cancer invented by Weizmann Institute scientists integrates insights from... Date: March 27, 2016
Former Intel President speaks to Israeli Friends The Israeli Friends of the Weizmann Institute of Science hosted Mr. Mooly Eden (pictured above),... Date: March 27, 2016
Breakthrough leukemia therapy A therapy devised by Weizmann Institute immunologist Prof. Zelig Eshhar for the treatment of a... Date: March 27, 2016
A lab of their own More than 70 American friends came together to support the establishment of a new lab at the... Date: March 16, 2016
Wanderlust for a cure Wade Thompson was a entrepreneur from New Zealand whose foundation is accellerating a major... Date: February 28, 2016
Morris Kahn Morris Kahn may be best known in Israel as the founder of Amdocs, one of Israel’s largest, most... Date: February 4, 2016
