Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Yoram Groner

Genetically Engineered Human SOD

12.09.2010

Genetics, Benefiting Humanity

Genetically engineered human SOD, manufactured based on Prof. Yoram Groner's research, is now undergoing clinical trials

Prof. Leo Sachs

Boosting Production of White Blood Cells

12.09.2010

Molecular and Cell Biology, Benefiting Humanity

In the 1960s, Prof. Leo Sachs developed the first ever procedure to grow, clone and induce the development of different types of normal blood cells...

Prof. Leo Sachs

Reversing Malignancy

12.09.2010

Molecular and Cell Biology, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Leo Sachs was the first to show that cancer cells – in tissue cultures and in living organisms – can be made to revert to normal behavior.

Prof. Emeritus Ephraim Frei

Innovative Imaging System for the Detection of Breast Cancer

12.09.2010

Space & Physics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Emeritus Ephraim Frei, a founder of electronics research at the Weizmann Institute in the 1950s, spent several decades studying the effects of...

Prof. Meir Wilchek

Biorecognition

12.09.2010

Biochemistry, Benefiting Humanity

Since the 1960s, Prof. Meir Wilchek has studied "biorecognition”: the process in which biological substances "recognize" one another and form a bond...

Prof. Meir Wilchek

An Immune Cancer Therapy

12.09.2010

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity

In the late 1980s, Prof. Meir Wilchek developed an immune cancer therapy that employs "T bodies" – white blood T cells engineered...

Prof. Michal Schwartz

Developing New Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury

12.09.2010

Brain & Behavior, Benefiting Humanity

New therapies for spinal cord injury based on original concepts proposed by Prof. Michal Schwartz are being developed and tested in clinical...

Prof. Avigdor Scherz

Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer

12.09.2010

Plants and Agriculture, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Avigdor Scherz studied photosynthesis, the process by which plants capture sunlight and convert it into useful energy. Together with Prof....

Prof. Irun Cohen

A Vaccine for Type 1 Diabetes

12.09.2010

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity

DIAPEP 277, a vaccine based on Cohen’s research, was shown in clinical trials to alleviate the condition of people with juvenile (type 1) diabetes...

Prof. Eli Canaani

First Discovery of Cancer Produced by Protein Fusion

12.09.2010

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Eli Canaani’s research provided the foundation for the development of Glivec, the first drug based on the molecular understanding of a specific...

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