Awarded to Scientific Personnel by External Entities

Awards and Honors Notification form – Weizmann staff only

Name	Department	Honor
Prof. Gad Asher	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Awarded the Lindner Prize by the Israel Endocrine Society (IES)
Prof. Naama Barkai	Department of Molecular Genetics	Awarded the Rothschild Prize in Life Science
Dr. Haim Beidenkopf	Department of Condensed Matter Physics	Elected as a Member of the Israel Young Academy
Dr. Ronen Eldan	Department of Mathematics	Awarded the Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Eran Elinav	Department of Immunology	Appointed as a Senior Editor of EMBO Molecular Medicine
Dr. Ayelet Erez	Department of Biological Regulation	Awarded a Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
Prof. Asher Friesem	Department of Physics of Complex Systems	Recipient of the Emmett N. Leith Medal from the Optical Society (OSA)
Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Recipient of a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies
Prof. Zohar Komargodski	Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics	Awarded a Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics
Dr. Emmanuel Levy	Department of Structural Biology	Awarded a Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
Dr. Nir London	Department of Organic Chemistry	Recipient of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR Career Development Award
Prof. David Margulies	Department of Organic Chemistry	Recipient of a MSMLG Czarnik Emerging Investigator Award
Prof. David Milstein	Department of Organic Chemistry	Elected as a member of the US National Academy of Sciences
Prof. Itamar Procaccia	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Invited to present the Colloquium Ehrenfestii in Leiden
Prof. Yair Reisner	Department of Immunology	Recipient of the DKMS Mechtild Harf Science Award
Prof. Avigdor Scherz	Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences	The Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the field of Biomedical Research (together with the late Prof. Yoram Salomon)
Prof. Michal Schwartz	Department of Neurobiology	Recipient of an Honorary degree from Ha-Merkaz ha-Bentehumi Hertseliyya (IDC)
Prof. Michal Schwartz	Department of Neurobiology	Recipient of the iNNOVEX2018 Global Leader of Innovation Award
Prof. Adi Shamir	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Recipient of a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies
Prof. Michal Sharon	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Recipient of the Mass Spectrometry in the Life Sciences Award by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Massenspektrometrie (DGMS)
Prof. Yaron Silberberg	Department of Physics of Complex Systems	Awarded the Rothschild Prize in Chemical Sciences and Physical Sciences
Prof. Rotem Sorek	Department of Molecular Genetics	Elected as a member of EMBO
Prof. Rotem Sorek	Department of Molecular Genetics	Elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
Mr. Nitai Sylvetsky (in the group of Prof. Gershom (Jan) Martin)	Department of Organic Chemistry	IBM-Zerner graduate student award of the 58th Sanibel Symposium from University of Florida
Dr. Igor Ulitsky	Department of Biological Regulation	Recipient of the James Heineman Research Award
Prof. David Wallach	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Awarded a Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Dr. Ofer Yizhar	Department of Neurobiology	Recipient of the Adelis Brain Research Award