Media

2023

• Israel Prize in Life Sciences to Prof. Michal Schwartz
• Podcast with Prof. Michal Schwartz (Hebrew)

2022

• Professor Michal Schwartz has been selected as one of “a few of the incredible women behind some of the most important scientific discoveries of our age” by  Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown website.

• Guardians of the brain: how a special immune system protects our grey matter. Nature 606, 22-24 (2022).

• TV Show about Prof. Michal Schwartz in Channel Kan1. November, 2022

2021

• Professor Michal Schwartz (Israel) has been awarded with the FENS EJN Award 2022 for her outstanding career in the area of neuroimmunology.

• From i24NEWS - an international channel bringing news and stories: Israeli-made Alzheimer’s drug heads to clinical trials.

2020

• Israeli revolutionary Alzheimer’s treatment to launch Phase 1 trial.   

          The Jerusalem Post, September 10, 2020.

• Israeli scientist is currently headed toward a Phase I clinical trial.

         NoCamels, October 6, 2020.

2019

• EMET Prize to Prof. Michal Schwartz 

        Award honors outstanding achievement in brain immunology

        and impact on aging and  dementia

        EMET Prize, The Jerusalem post, September 2019.

       2019 EMET Prize winners honored

• Science: A Love Story

  Dr. Javier María Peralta Ramos and Dr. Denise Kviatcovsky, working side by side on their postdocs, this couple feels right at home at Weizmann.

• Interview with Prof. Michal Schwartz by Phoenix TV

  Hong Kong, 10 September, 2019.

  “A New Breakthrough in Overcoming Alzheimer's”

2018

• Boosting Immunity to Combat Alzheimer's Disease
  By Prof. Michal Schwartz
  July 3, 2018

• Searching for Alzheimer’s disease therapies
  Q&A, Nature Medicine volume 24, pages 894–897, 2018
  July 9,  2018

• Will Immunotherapy defeat Alzheimer’s disease?  

          Popular Lecture in Hebrew by Prof. Michal Schwartz

          December, 4, 2018

2017

• Rappaport bio-medical award 2017.
  March 19, 2017

• Haaretz/TheMarker interview  
  April 16, 2017
   
• The European Research council (ERC) celebrates 10 years of research
  Can a booster-shot stop Alzheimer’s?  by Prof. Michal Schwartz

• Prof. Michal Schwartz in Channel 22- Hebrew
  June 22, 2017

• The following items about Prof. Michal Schwartz who was chosen Woman of the Year by LADY GLOBES for her groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's Disease (in English).
  September 18, 2017
   
  1. An interview by Ayala Hasson on Israel radio 103FM (in Hebrew)
  2. An interview by Razi Barkai on Israel radio GALEI ZAHAL (in Hebrew)
  3. An interview by by Dan Margalit in Channel 23 (in Hebrew)

• 2015 Katzir lecture (Hebrew)
  November 12, 2015: Prof. Michal Schwartz lecture to high-school students audience (lecture is in hebrew) on the topic of harnessing the immune system for brain repair in Alzheimer's disease and aging.

• Blumberg Outstanding Medical Research Scientist Prize awarded to Professor Michal Schwartz
  November 3, 2015: KKL-JNF awarded the Blumberg Outstanding Medical Research Scientist Prize to Professor Michal Schwartz for her groundbreaking research on the connection between the brain and the immune system.

• Is this the Secret to a Young, Healthy Brain?
  October 8, 2015: Emma Haak interviews Prof. Michal Schwartz regarding her book, “Neuroimmunity: A New Science That Will Revolutionize How We Keep Our Brains Healthy and Young”.

• Choroid plexus dysfunction in brain aging
  Januar 5, 2015: Dr. Dennis Steindler and Dr. Simin Meydani discuss our publication "Aging-induced type I interferon response at the choroid plexus negatively affects brain function".

2014

• Can we restore cognition by manipulating where the body meets the mind?
  October 14, 2014: Dr. Kuti Baruch, Aleksandra Deczkowska, and Prof. Michal Schwartz try to tackle this question in The Conversation.

2013

• Breaking the wall between the body and the mind.
  November 9 2013: Prof. Michal Schwartz lecture at Falling Walls 2013 conference. How neuroimmunology develops new strategies against brain aging and degeneration.

2010

• The immune system and the brain
  August 16 2010: Prof. Michal Schwartz lecture at The Australian National University. This lecture was part of the John Curtin School of Medical Research Symposium in New Perspectives in Clinical Neuroscience and Mental Health.