https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/path-personalized-prognosis
May 13, 2013
Doctors seeking to prescribe personalized therapy for a cancer patient face a great deal of uncertainty. How fast is the tumor growing? How aggressively should the cancer be treated? And which treatment approach is likely to be most effective? Answers to these questions rema...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/2012-and-beyond
May 16, 2013
From the President Inertia is defined as the resistance of a physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion. This is the classical understanding of inertia in physics, but if we apply that concep...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/facts-and-figures
May 16, 2013
250 different research groups are headed by senior scientists and professors. At any one time around 1,200 research projects are being conducted at the Institute. There are 1,076 research students and 380 postdoctoral fellows. Th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/research-highlights-2012
May 19, 2013
Biology Biochemistry Chemistry Physics Mathematics and Computer Science Biology Synthetic Antibodies Institute researchers led by Prof. Irit Sagi turned the tables on the immune...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/welcome-aboard
May 19, 2013
Dr. Haim Beidenkopf - Condensed Matter Physics - Dr. Beidenkopf researches the unusual behavior of electrons in topological phases and novel materials, which may have future applications in electronic circuits and quantum computers....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/grants
May 19, 2013
During the academic year 2011/2012 over 1,000 Weizmann Institute research projects won grants totaling over $81 million. Sources of approved funding for research grants were geographically distributed among: Israel (nearly $30 million), Europe (near...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/new-developments
May 19, 2013
Personalized Medicine Up and Working While the conversion of the Institute’s iconic solar tower into labs for the Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine (INCPM) got under way in October, its four units are already up and working in various tem...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/feinberg-graduate-school
May 19, 2013
“This year has seen a conspicuous increase in the quantity, and even more importantly the quality, of the student applications to the Feinberg Graduate School M.Sc. program for next year,” says Graduate School Dean Prof. Lia Addadi. She attributes this, in gre...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technology-applicationsmade-institute/technology-transfer
May 19, 2013
Yeda Research and Development Company, Ltd., was established in 1959 to promote the industrial applications stemming from Weizmann Institute inventions. One of the first technology transfer companies, it continues today to license dozens of new drugs and advanced technologie...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/summary-operating-results
May 22, 2013
2010 / 2011 The operating expenditures of the Weizmann Institute of Science as of September 30 2011 stands at NIS 1.004 billion. The lion’s share of this sum goes to pay salaries and related expenses. Additional funds go to the financing of scientific activities – includi...