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Award Recipients Award Recipients 2011 2011 Supported by • Clore Israel Foundation • Charles H. Revson Foundation, USA • Bay Area Fund for Women Scientists, USA The Kaplan Family Fund • Maureen and Jack Dym, Canada • Andrea Klepetar Fallek, USA • Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence, USA • The Pearl Welinsky Merlo Foundation, Ellen Merlo, USA • Mike and Valeria Rosenbloom through the Mike Rosenbloom Foundation, Canada • Rueff-Wormser Postdoctoral Fellowship, USA • Marla Schaefer, USA • Prof. Maxine Singer, USA • Weizmann Institute of Science Friends in the UK Additional support • Marilyn Barnett, USA • Lillian Erdeljan, USA • Dr. Sonya Friedman, USA • Karen Jacobson and Carl Sterr, USA • Francie and Stuart Klein, Canada • Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Sherman, USA מכון ויצמן למדע — תוכנית לאומית לפרסי מחקרדוקטוריאליים לקידום בתר נשים במדעWeizmann Institute of Science — National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science
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Award RecipientsAward Recipients 20112011Supported by• Clore Israel Foundation
• Charles H. Revson Foundation, USA
• Bay Area Fund for Women Scientists, USAThe Kaplan Family Fund
• Maureen and Jack Dym, Canada
• Andrea Klepetar Fallek, USA
• Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence, USA
• The Pearl Welinsky Merlo Foundation, Ellen Merlo, USA
• Mike and Valeria Rosenbloom through the Mike Rosenbloom Foundation, Canada
• Rueff-Wormser Postdoctoral Fellowship, USA
• Marla Schaefer, USA
• Prof. Maxine Singer, USA
• Weizmann Institute of Science Friends in the UK
Additional support• Marilyn Barnett, USA
• Lillian Erdeljan, USA
• Dr. Sonya Friedman, USA
• Karen Jacobson and Carl Sterr, USA
• Francie and Stuart Klein, Canada
• Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Sherman, USA
מכון ויצמן למדע —תוכנית לאומית לפרסי מחקר
בתר�דוקטוריאליים לקידוםנשים במדע
Weizmann Institute of Science —National PostdoctoralAward Program forAdvancing Women in Science
For further information about the program, please contact:
Prof. Varda Rotter
President’s Advisor for AdvancingWomen in ScienceWeizmann Institute of Science
[email protected] 972-8-934-4501
Ms. Yosefa Givoli
SecretaryWeizmann Institute of Science
[email protected] 972-8-934-3841
here are fewer women than men in the world of science and
this discrepancy is even more pronounced in Israel. As a
small country, with few natural resources, Israel relies heavily on its brain
power and it would be wise to fully utilize this human potential to its fullest.
We would like to see the number of women faculty members at the
Weizmann Institute and nationwide increased; we would also like to see
a rise in the number of young female researchers and tenured scientists.
In the field of exact and natural sciences, there are several reasons
why many Israeli female graduates forego their career development.
Social, cultural, and financial pressures in our society may force women
to abandon their academic careers. One of the major obstacles is the
fact that women PhD graduates easily give up the opportunity for a
postdoctoral training tenure. Postdoctoral training abroad is vitally
important to the quality of Israeli science and is a critical phase in every
man and woman scientist’s career. Unfortunately, this is precisely the
stage at which so many women, in fact, decide to give up and forsake their
academic careers. Therefore, we believe that encouraging women to
take a two to four year period for postdoctoral training in a top laboratory
abroad, may be an important step in assuring the successful development
of their scientific career.
On 2007, Prof. Hadassa Degani of the Weizmann Institute of Science
initiated a program, which would actively encourage gifted Israeli female
scientists to enroll in ambitious postdoctoral training programs. This
nationwide award program is aimed at supporting outstanding female
Ph.D. graduates, from all Israeli academic institutions of higher learning.
The award, gives a better opportunity for the top talented postdoctoral
women to be trained at leading international laboratories, and thereby
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permit successful postdoctoral tenure that will assure their returning to
Israel and accomplishment of a successful academic career.
The criteria for the award being given are based on academic excellence,
an outstanding Ph.D. thesis, scientific productivity, publications in leading
journals and state-of-the-art proposed postdoctoral research program.
Strong recommendations from their advisors and scientists familiar
with their work, recognition from the candidate’s own institution and
their having been awarded scientific prizes are also highly considered.
The award is given to individuals who were already accepted for their
postdoctoral training to top leading laboratories in the world.
Prof. Varda Rotter, the President’s Advisor for Advancing Women in
Science, together with delegates from several academic institutes in
Israel makes up the prize committee. The program is administered by the
Weizmann Institute’s Feinberg Graduate School, which has extensive
experience in evaluating students and PostDocs.
T he Weizmann Institute of Science is grateful to our
friends throughout the world who have generously
supported the cause of Women in Science.
Rehovot, August 23, 2011
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ד“ר ארבל ארצי≠שנירמן Dr. Arbel Artzy-Schnirman
Ph.D.: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Department: Biology
Advisor: Prof. Uri Sivan, Prof. Yoram Reiter
Ph.D. Thesis: The bio-electronic synapse: electrical control over biological processes by molecular recognition of an electronic device
Post-doctorate: Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Department: Institute of Biomedical Engineering & Department of Materials
Advisor: Prof. Molly Stevens
Research Topic: Functionalized nanoparticles for the manipulation of autoreactive regulatory T-Cells
ד”ר נעה כורם ©וינברג®Dr. Noa Corem (Weinberg)
Ph.D.: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department: Biology and Cancer Research
Advisor: Prof. Yuval Dor
Ph.D. Thesis: Mechanisms of pancreatic cell proliferation
Post-doctorate: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Department: Genetics
Advisor: Prof. Klaus Kaestner
Research Topic: The roles of glucokinase in beta cell proliferation and survival
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ד”ר נעמה גבע≠זטורסקיDr. Naama Geva-Zatorsky
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Molecular Cell Biology
Advisor: Prof. Uri Alon
Ph.D. Thesis: Systems-level analysis of protein response-networks in human living cells
Post-doctorate: Harvard Medical School, United States
Department: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor: Prof. Dennis Kasper
Research Topic: The human natural microbiota as an immune system
ד”ר מיכל לסקסDr. Michal Leskes
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Chemical Physics
Advisor: Prof. Shimon Vega
Ph.D. Thesis: Advances in high resolution proton solid state NMR
Post-doctorate: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Department: Chemistry
Advisor: Prof. Clare P. Grey
Research Topic: Application of solid state NMR techniques in the study of lithium ion batteries
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ד”ר יוליה מחאמידDr. Julia Mahamid
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Structural Biology
Advisor: Prof. Lia Addadi and Prof. Steve Weiner
Ph.D. Thesis: Structural investigation of bone mineralization processes in the zebrafish fin and embryonic mouse models
Post-doctorate: Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Department: Molecular Structural Biology
Advisor: Prof. Wolfgang Baumeister
Research Topic: Ultrastructural characterization of C. elegans centrosome assembly and organization
ד”ר ליעד מודריקDr. Liad Mudrik
Ph.D.: Tel-Aviv University
Department: Psychology
Advisor: Prof. Dominique Lamy and Prof. Leon Deouell
Ph.D. Thesis: Processing visual context violations: the roles of attention and awareness
Post-doctorate: California Institute of Technology, United States
Department: Biology
Advisor: Prof. Christof Koch
Research Topic: Intracranial study of the neural substrated of free will, agency and moral responsibility
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ד”ר אילנה ניסקיDr. Ilana Nisky
Ph.D.: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Amir Karniel
Ph.D. Thesis: Perceptuomotor transparency in bilateral teleoperation
Post-doctorate: Stanford University, United States
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Allison Okamura
Research Topic: Human-in-the-loop telepresence control for robot-assisted surgery
ד”ר נגה רון≠הראלDr. Noga Ron-Harel
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Neurobiology
Advisor: Prof. Michal Schwartz
Ph.D. Thesis: Brain maintenance and functional plasticity are immune-dependent: implications to aging
Post-doctorate: Harvard Medical School, United States
Department: Cell Biology
Advisor: Prof. Marcia Haigis
Research Topic: Exploring the role of sirtuins as metabolic regulators of immune function and their possible relevancy to immunosenescence
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ד”ר עדי שטרןDr. Adi Stern
Ph.D.: Tel-Aviv University
Department: Cell Research and Immunology
Advisor: Prof. Tal Pupko
Ph.D. Thesis: Evolutionary models reveal insights into HIV adaptations and mechanisms of genomic innovation
Post-doctorate: University of California, San Francisco, United States
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Advisor: Prof. Raul Andino
Research Topic: The effects of sequence diversity on viral fitness and cross-species transmissions
ד”ר הילה וידברגDr. Hilla Weidberg
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Biological chemistry
Advisor: Prof. Zvulun Elazar
Ph.D. Thesis: The role of mammalian Atg8s during autophagosome biogenesis
Post-doctorate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology , United States
Department: Biology
Advisor: Prof. Angelika Amon
Research Topic: Characterizing the effect of aneuploidy on intracellular protein quality control systems
Recipients
2007Dr. Lilac AmiravDr. Yael Artzy-RandrupDr. Hadas HawlenaDr. Ayelt Lamm (Margalit)Dr. Anat LevinDr. Genela MorrisDr. Irena PekkerDr. Adi SalomonDr. Genia SkluteDr. Ervin Tal-GutelmacherDr. Neta Wexler Sal-Man
2008Dr. Maya Bar SadanDr. Liraz ChaiDr. Einat CinnamonDr. Irit Gat-ViksDr. Liat GoldfarbDr. Inbal GoshenDr. Orna Mizrachi-ManDr. Sharon ReefDr. Dana ReichmannDr. Dina SchneidmanDr. Maytal Toroker (Caspary)
2009Dr. Mirela Ben-ChenDr. Noam Ginossar (Stern)Dr. Shlomit GreenbergDr. Ilana Kolodkin-GalDr. R’ada (Jada) MassarwaDr. Smadar NaozDr. Yana NecDr. Yael PolitiDr. Michal Rivlin-EtzionDr. Asia RollsDr. Maya Zayats
2010Dr. Hagar Gelbard-SagivDr. Orly GnatDr. Liran GorenDr. Karen MichaeliDr. Vicki PlaksDr. Rina RosenzweigDr. Ruth Scherz-ShouvalDr. Michal Segal-RosenheimerDr. Reut ShalgiDr. Tali (Avital) TreibitzDr. Anna Zamansky
National Committee:Prof. Varda Rotter Chair, Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. Lia Addadi Dean, Feinberg Graduate School,
Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. Irit Dinur Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. Batsheva Kerem Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Hanna Rapaport Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. David Cahen Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. Yosef Nir Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. Alon Chen Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. Doron Ginsberg Bar-Ilan University
Gila Shmueli Weizmann Institute of Science
Yosefa Givoli Secretary
About the Weizmann Institute of Science:The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is one of the world’s top-ranking multidisciplinary research institutions. Noted for its wide-ranging exploration of the natural and exact sciences, the Institute is home to 2,600 scientists, students, technicians and support staff. Institute research efforts include the search for new ways of fighting disease and hunger, examining leading questions in mathematics and computer science, probing the physics of matter and the universe, creating novel materials and developing new strategies for protecting the environment.
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