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Reversing Malignancy
12.09.2010
Molecular and Cell Biology
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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.
Innovative Imaging System for the Detection of Breast Cancer
12.09.2010
Space & Physics
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Prof. Emeritus Ephraim Frei, a founder of electronics research at the Weizmann Institute in the 1950s, spent several decades studying the effects of...
Biorecognition
12.09.2010
Biochemistry
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Since the 1960s, Prof. Meir Wilchek has studied "biorecognition”: the process in which biological substances "recognize" one another and form a bond...
An Immune Cancer Therapy
12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
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In the late 1980s, Prof. Meir Wilchek developed an immune cancer therapy that employs "T bodies" – white blood T cells engineered...
Developing New Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury
12.09.2010
Brain & Behavior
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New therapies for spinal cord injury based on original concepts proposed by Prof. Michal Schwartz are being developed and tested in clinical...
Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer
12.09.2010
Plants and Agriculture
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Prof. Avigdor Scherz studied photosynthesis, the process by which plants capture sunlight and convert it into useful energy. Together with Prof....
A Vaccine for Type 1 Diabetes
12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
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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...
First Discovery of Cancer Produced by Protein Fusion
12.09.2010
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Prof. Eli Canaani’s research provided the foundation for the development of Glivec, the first drug based on the molecular understanding of a specific...
Hormone Erythropoietin for Treating Multiple Myeloma
12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
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Haran-Ghera’s research provided the scientific basis for clinical trials of erythropoietin in multiple myeloma and for testing the effects of this...
Asthma Drug Used to Enhance Ovarian and Lung Cancer Treatment
12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
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Prof. Avraham Amsterdam revealed that theophylline, a widely used asthma drug, makes ovarian and lung cancer cells more vulnerable to common...
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