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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-moshe-oren
October 7, 2009
Prof. Moshe Oren was appointed Incumbent of the André Lwoff Chair in Molecular Biology....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-itamar-procaccia
October 2, 2009
Prof. Itamar Procaccia received the Israel Prize in physics....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-orly-reiner
October 1, 2009
Prof. Orly Reiner received the Excellence Award in Memory of Profs. Daphna and Dov Izraeli from the Israel Cancer Association....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/anti-inflammatory-compounds
September 12, 2010
For nearly two decades, Prof. David Wallach has studied receptors for the tumor necrosis factor, or TNF, an immune system substance that controls the damaging processes associated with inflammation. In these studies, Wallach identified two classes of proteins that block TNF...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/interleukin-6
September 12, 2010
Interleukin-6, which, among its other effects, stimulates the production of red blood cells and helps control metastases, was first isolated and cloned by Prof. Michel Revel. Application Interleukin-6 was developed into a drug by InterPharm Laboratories Ltd....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bio-hep-b-vaccine
September 12, 2010
Prof. Yosef Shaul studies the processes by which viruses interact with cells. In particular, he has been able to define the molecular mechanisms employed by the hepatitis B virus. Application Bio-Hep-B, a vaccine for hepatitis B based on Prof. Shaul's researc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/genetically-engineered-human-sod
September 12, 2010
Prof. Yoram Groner has led pioneering studies of chromosome 21. An extra copy of this chromosome causes Down syndrome. One of the genes on this chromosome carries the code for the enzyme superoxide dismutase, or SOD. Groner was the first to clone the human SOD gene and to pr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/boosting-production-white-blood-cells
September 12, 2010
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 in a laboratory dish. Using this process he discovered and identified a family of proteins, among them colony-stimulating facto...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/reversing-malignancy
September 12, 2010
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. Application Sachs' studies on reversing malignancy led to the development of a new treatment, differentia...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/innovative-imaging-system-detection-breast-cancer
September 12, 2010
Prof. Emeritus Ephraim Frei, a founder of electronics research at the Weizmann Institute in the 1950s, spent several decades studying the effects of magnetic fields on living tissues. Application An innovative breast imaging system, T-Scan, developed on the b...
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