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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/yaakov-naan-appointed-weizmann-institute-vice-president-finance-and-administration
January 8, 1996
Yaakov Naan is about to join the Weizmann Institute as Vice President for Finance and Administration. He will take office on February 1, 1996, replacing David Schlachet, who is leaving to engage in private business after having served in this capacity for five years. Born...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/world-famous-physicist-arkady-aronov-remembered-weizmann-institute-physics-symposium
January 7, 1996
New developments in solid state physics will be discussed this week (January 8-12) at the Arkady Aronov Memorial Symposium to be held in Zichron Ya'akov, near Haifa, under the aegis of the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Heraeus Foundation, Germany. Some 140 invited part...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/new-approach-fighting-autoimmune-diseases
December 25, 1995
A natural mechanism by which the body turns off inflammation may serve as a basis for the design of a new class of drugs against multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. This mechanism -- demonstrated by a team of scientists led by Prof. Lawrence Steinman of the W...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/women-distinction-award-two-weizmann-institute-scientists
January 28, 1996
This week, two scientists from Israel's Weizmann Institute were honored for an achievement that bears on the lives of many people throughout the world. Prof. Ruth Arnon and Dr. Dvora Teitelbaum received Women of Distinction Awards from Hadassah, the Women's Zionist...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/innovative-treatment-enables-paralyzed-rats-regain-partial-use-their-hind-legs
June 30, 1998
Weizmann Institute scientists have managed to partially heal the damaged spinal cords of laboratory animals, according to a study reported in the July issue of Nature Medicine. A team led by Prof. Michal Schwartz of the Neurobiology Department used an innovative treatment which a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/new-drug-delivery-system-may-help-fight-rheumatoid-arthritis-and-disease-related-weight-loss
June 26, 1996
A potential method for treating rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and other chronic inflammatory disorders has been developed in an animal study conducted by Weizmann Institute and Ben-Gurion University researchers. This approach -- described in the current issue of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/nothing-sneeze
January 1, 1996
A gene responsible for the production of an allergy-blocking protein has been discovered by the team of Prof. Israel Pecht at Weizmann Institute's Immunology Department. Allergic reactions occur when a substance known as an allergen -- pollen, pet dander and mold are com...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/getting-bang-out-experiment-0
January 1, 1996
Steven Spielberg, move over. An international team of physicists is recreating a world that existed billions of years before the one portrayed in Jurassic Park. Using the world's most powerful atom-smasher, the group -- in which researchers from the Institute's Parti...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/tight-squeeze
January 1, 1996
One of the first things we learn about nature is that water turns into a solid when it is frozen. For this change of state to occur, drastic alterations in environment such as a drop in temperature or an increase in pressure were always considered necessary -- until now. W...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technology/biolinerx-licenses-two-additional-drug-candidates-company-expands-therapeutic-pipeline
March 26, 2007
BioLineRx Ltd. (TASE: BLRX), Israel’s leading drug development company, today announced that it has signed in-license agreements to develop and commercialize two new therapeutic candidates: BL-3040, a small molecule for the treatment of estrogen-regulated malignancies and osteopo...
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