Israel’s Most Promising Researchers of 2018
Three outstanding Israeli Scientists win the 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel during its inaugural year.
Published May 1, 2018
For over a decade in the United States, the Blavatnik Awards have honored exceptional young scientists and engineers. The award highlights their extraordinary achievements, recognizing their remarkable promise for future discoveries, and accelerating innovation in their research.
Established in 2007, the Blavatnik Awards are a signature program of the Blavatnik Family Foundation that are administered by the New York Academy of Sciences. Awarded in Israel for the first time – in collaboration with the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities – three of the country’s most outstanding young scientists and engineers will receive $100,000 each, one of the largest unrestricted prizes ever created for early-career researchers in Israel.
From 47 nominees, encompassing Israel’s most promising scientific researchers aged 42 years and younger and nominated by Israeli research universities, a distinguished national jury selected three outstanding laureates, one each from the disciplines of Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Physical Sciences & Engineering:
- Dr. Oded Rechavi
Senior Lecturer, Department of Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University
- Dr. Charles Diesendruck
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Prof. Anat Levin
Associate Professor, The Andrew & Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
The inaugural Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel will be honored at a formal ceremony in Jerusalem on February 4, 2018. The Laureates will join a network of their peers as members of the Blavatnik Science Scholars community. The net work is currently comprised of over 220 Blavatnik Award honorees from the decade-old U.S. program. Laureates will also be invited to attend the annual Blavatnik Science Symposium at the Academy each summer. Here the Scholars come together to exchange new ideas and build cross-disciplinary research collaborations.
To learn more about this year’s Blavatnik Laureates and other honorees, please visit the Blavatnik website here and follow us on Twitter: @BlavatnikAwards.
