Pictured are BSF Executive Director Yair Rotstein and Conference speaker the Honorable Patrick Kennedy

Neuroscience Conference Brings Experts Together

Posted on November 24th, 2012 · Posted in AFBSF

Bringing together top scientists from the United States and Israel, “Accelerating U.S. – Israel Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Collaborations,” was held this past September 2012 in Washington, DC.  Discussed at the conference were cutting-edge technologies, and research underway in the United States and Israel. Presenters shared..
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Historic Partnership Between the BSF and the NSF

Posted on September 23rd, 2012 · Posted in AFBSF

An unprecedented partnership has been formed recently between the United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. governmental agency that funds much of the scientific research carried out in the U.S. This extraordinary partnership between the BSF..
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Three Major U.S.-Israel Foundations Present Neuroscience Conference

Posted on August 24th, 2012 · Posted in AFBSF

Bringing together top scientists from the United States and Israel, “Accelerating U.S. – Israel Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Collaborations,” is scheduled for September 11-12, 2012 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.  The conference is jointly sponsored by three major U.S. – Israeli foundations:..
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Professor Daniel Zajfman, President Weizmann Institute of Science, pays tribute to BSF

Posted on August 20th, 2012 · Posted in AFBSF

Daniel Zajfman, President of Weizmann Institute of Science recently stated, “The products of scientific research which is made by people with well-defined and different  identities and cultures, is completely universal.   A new drug cures everyone independent of its religion, and a solution of an..
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Transformative Science Program Grants Awarded

Posted on July 25th, 2012 · Posted in AFBSF, BSF, NSF, Science Program

  2011:  The BSF launched a Transformative Science Program (TSP) in 2010, adopting guidelines developed by the U.S.-based National Science Foundation  (NSF) for transformative research as “driven by ideas that have potential to radically change our understanding of an important scientific concept, or lead to..
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Astronomists Discover New Class of Supernovae

Posted on July 25th, 2012 · Posted in astrophysics, General

2011:  Supernovae are stellar explosions, driven by gravitational or thermonuclear energy, which occur when stars die. A BSF-supported collaboration between Dr. Avishay Gal­ Yam, Senior Scientist at the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics in the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Prof. Shrinivas Kulkarni, Director..
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Four Major BSF Prizes Awarded

Posted on July 24th, 2012 · Posted in AFBSF, Awards

2011:  The Bergmann Memorial Awards for the best applications by young scientists was awarded two researchers.  Dr. Udi Qimron from Tel Aviv University working together with Professor Charles Richardson from the Harvard Medical School on “Bacteriophage-Host Interactions” received one award.  Dr. lnna Gaisler­ Salomon from..
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