Awards And Honors

Awards and Honors Notification formWeizmann staff only
Name Department Honor
Prof. Eli Arama Department of Molecular Genetics Recipient of a Research Career Development Award from Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), USA
Prof. Ruth Arnon Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology Awarded the AESKU Prize for Life Contribution to Autoimmunity by the 6th International Congress on Autoimmunity
Prof. Ruth Arnon Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology Awarded an honorary "Yakir Tel-Hai" from the Tel-Hai Academic College
Prof. Roy Bar-ziv Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Awarded the Wolf Foundation's Krill Prize for Outstanding Research
Prof. Naama Barkai Department of Molecular Genetics Recipient of the FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award
Prof. Ed Bayer Department of Biomolecular Sciences Elected to the Scientific Advisor Board of the DOE BioEnergy Science Center (BESC)
Prof. David Cahen Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Awarded the Kolthoff Prize from the Technion for his Research in Alternavite Energy Resources
Prof. Irun r. Cohen Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology Recipient of the "Teva" Founder Research Prize in Immunology
Prof. Harry Dym Department of Mathematics Elected as President of the Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Yuval Gefen Department of Condensed Matter Physics Elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London, UK
Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Elected by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as the Athena Award for Research that Advanced Secure Internet Transactions Lecturer
Prof. Jonathan Gressel Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences Recipient of the Outstanding International Achievement Award from the International Weed Science Society
Prof. Yoram Groner Department of Molecular Genetics Recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation
Prof. Moty Heiblum Department of Condensed Matter Physics Awarded the Rothschild Prize in Physical Sciences
Prof. Yoseph Imry Department of Condensed Matter Physics Elected as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Vyacheslav Kalchenko Department of Veterinary Resources Elected as a Fellow of Royal Microscopical Society
Prof. Adi Kimchi Department of Molecular Genetics Elected to the Academia Europaea
Prof. Gady Kozma Department of Mathematics Recipient of the Anna and Lajos Erdos Prize in Mathematics by Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Robert Krauthgamer Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Elected as Treasurer of the Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Gershon Kurizki Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Recipient of the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
Prof. Doron Lancet Department of Molecular Genetics Awarded the Landau Prize of Mifal Hapais for Research and Science
Prof. Gil Levkowitz Department of Molecular Cell Biology Awarded the Program Committee Award at eh 17th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Development Neuroscience (ISDN)
Prof. Zeev Luz Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Awarded the Israel Chemical Society Medal
Prof. Gershom (jan) Martin Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Nominated as the Robert S. Mulliken Lecturer at the University of Georgia, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, USA
Prof. Israel Pecht Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology Elected as the Secretary General of Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
Prof. David Peleg Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Awarded the Dijkstra Prize by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Distributed Computing
Prof. Yehiam Prior Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Prof. Itamar Procaccia Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Elected as a Member of C3, Commission on Statistical Physics (IUPAP)
Prof. Omer Reingold Department of Condensed Matter Physics Recipient of the Professor Amnon Pazy Memorial Award from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
Prof. Vered Rom-kedar Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Elected as Secretary of the Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Israel Rubinstein Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Honored by Publication of a Special Issue of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
Prof. Michal Schwartz Department of Brain Sciences Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Ben-Gurion Univeristy of the Negev
Prof. Yechiel Shai Department of Biomolecular Sciences Elected to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Alla Shainskaya Department of Life Sciences Core Facilities Elected as the President of the Israeli Society for Mass Spectrometry (ISMS)
Prof. Ehud Shapiro Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Authored an article selected to appear in the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
Prof. Michal Sharon Department of Biomolecular Sciences Recipient of a Research Career Development Award from Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), USA
Prof. Nathan Sharon Department of Biomolecular Sciences Selected to share (with Dr. Robert Spiro) the inaugural Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology
Prof. David Tannor Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Awarded the Zahava and Zvi Friedenberg Prize of the Israel Science Foundation
Prof. Reshef Tenne Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Awarded the Israel Chemical Society Prize for Excellence
Prof. Reshef Tenne Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Elected as a Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow
Prof. Edriss s. Titi Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Elected as a Member of the Commission on Mathematical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
Prof. Shimon Ullman Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Recipient of the 8th David Rumelhart Prize
Prof. Meir Wilchek Department of Biomolecular Sciences Re-Elected as a Member of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Boad of Governors
Prof. Meir Wilchek Department of Biomolecular Sciences Re-Elected as a Member of Bar-Ilan University's Board of Governors
Prof. Dan Yakir Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Elected as a Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (SC-IGBP)
Prof. Yosef Yarden Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology Awarded the Hamilton Fairley Prize by the ESMO (European Society for Medical Oncology) Executive Committee
Prof. Ada Yonath Department of Chemical and Structural Biology Recipient of a Degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa from Oxford University
Prof. Ada Yonath Department of Chemical and Structural Biology Elected to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Ada Yonath Department of Chemical and Structural Biology Recipient of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science Awarded by the Consejo Cultural Mundial
Prof. Ada Yonath Department of Chemical and Structural Biology Elected as the Laureate to represent Europe for "Women in Science" Awards by the L'OREAL-UNESCO International Jury
Prof. Ada Yonath Department of Chemical and Structural Biology Rrecipient of the 10th Annual l'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science
Prof. Ada Yonath Department of Chemical and Structural Biology Recipient of the George E. Palade Distinguished Lecture and Gold Medal from Wayne State University