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IAFI is pleased to report how we have allocated your donations this year.
It is also the time of year when we ask for your financial help so that we can continue making a real difference in a difficult world. Please make your 2011 donation today.
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Andrew R. Marks, M.D.
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2011
Conference Sponsorships |
27th International Jerusalem Symposium on Sports Medicine
January 2011 Jerusalem
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Tel Aviv Conference on Headache and Pain (CoPain) in conjunction with the 23rd Annual New York Symposium on Headache and Pain;
in collaboration with the Israel Society of Headache, the Israel Society of Pain & the Israel Association of Family Physicians.
May 2011 Tel Aviv
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The Genetics of Migrant and Isolate Populations: 1961-2011
A 50th anniversary conference
sponsored by Sheba Foundation
June 2011 Herzliya
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Israeli Society for Research, Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis
(16th annual)
September 2011 Eilat
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Do you want IAFI to consider sponsoring a particular conference that will take place in Israel? If so, please email info@iafi-israel.org and we will consider your suggestion. |
Israeli Chemist Wins Nobel Prize
For the tenth time in its 63 year history, an Israeli has won a Nobel Prize. Daniel Shechtman, an Israeli scientist, was named the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry, Reuters reported. Tel Aviv-born Shechtman, 70, is based at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and was awarded the prize for discovering different ways in which atoms could be packed together in solid materials. "His discovery was extremely controversial," said the Nobel Committee for Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which made the award. "In the course of defending his findings, he was asked to leave his research group. However, his battle eventually forced scientists to reconsider their conception of the very nature of matter."
IAFI shares this accomplishment with you as a reminder of how important it is to the advancement of science that Israeli scientists are included in conferences, journals, studies, and all aspects of their fields. Not only do the Israelli scientists benefit, but their international colleagues also have much to gain from access to the important work taking place in Israeli labs.
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Weitzmann Institute
Named one of the World's Best Places for Academics
Israel's Weizmann Institute has once again been singled out by The Scientist as one of the best places in the world for academics.
There are only three instruments in the world like Dr. Michal Sharon's mass spectrometer, which vaporizes large molecules to analyze their shapes and compositions. Two are in England and hers is at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
This is the sort of distinction, multiplied manifold, that recently earned the Weizmann accolades from The Scientist magazine as "best place to work in academia" outside the United States. The institute consistently appears among the top five international (non-US) institutions, and has been ranked first twice before.
Since the Weizmann has no undergraduates, most professors have a light teaching load and can devote much of their time to their research. "It's a true heaven for young scientists," says Sharon.
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