Recipients

The award committee accepts approximately 10 recipients per year, and the prize is given over a three years period according to the following categories:

  • Dr. Tal Idan

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. AIX Marseille University, Marseille, France
    Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv Israel
    2022
    Sponge diseases under climate change: a multi-omics approach to the holobiont’s molecular functions
  • Dr. Angelica Elkan

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. University of Houston, Texas, USA
    Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel
    2021
    Developing organic synthetic photonic systems simulating the biogenic photonic systems of vision in marine animals
  • Dr. Aldema Sas-Chen

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel – University of Cambridge, UK
    The role of non-coding RNA in regulation of signal transduction networks and cancer progression
    2018
    Systematic mapping and functional characterization of RNA modifications in human and yeast
  • Dr. Michal Haskel-Ittah

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel – Rutgers University,NJ USA
    Determination of the dorsoventral axis in the early drosophila embryo
    2017
    Characterizing high school students' ability to interrelate three conceptual models in genetics
  • Dr. Moran Shalev-Benami

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel – University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, MI, USA
    Structural characterization of aminoglycosides’ mechanisms of action, structure-based drug design of novel therapeutic molecules for genetic disorders, and anti-microbial applications.
    2016
    Structural characterizations of eukaryotic parasites' ribosomes