Research in Focus
From the Weizmann Institute of Science
An open-access format for drug discovery is helping design medications against potential viral threats
An international crowd-sourced campaign to discover an anti-COVID-19 drug has created a blueprint for the accelerated, patent-free development of drugs to treat viral threats to humanity. The results of the...
Synthetic human embryo models up to 14 days old grown from stem cells in Weizmann Lab
A research team headed by Professor Jacob Hanna at the Weizmann Institute of Science has created complete models of human embryos from stem cells cultured in the lab – and...
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Partnerships
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— Jillian Segal AO
Weizmann in the news
Appealing to Academic Leadership Worldwide
Dear Friends, The following is a letter, signed by the Presidents of Israel’s universities. We encourage you to share it with your colleagues and friends so it can reach as broad an…
2023 International Summer School students return inspired
Three lucky Australian high school graduates spent the month of July attending the Weizmann Institute of Science’s annual International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) in Israel. First year science students, Chi…
Facts and Figures
Weizmann at a Glance
Excellence – Prizes
- 1 Nobel Prize
- 2 Japan Prizes
- 3 Turing Awards
- 10 Wolf Prizes
- 30 Krill Prizes
- 39 Israel Prizes
Excellence – Rankings
- #2 on Nature Index for research quality
- #8 on the Leiden ranking of scientific research quality and impact
Staff and Students
- 282 Principal Investigators
- 195 staff scientists
- 462 post doc fellows
- 757 PhD students
- 422 MSc students
- 52 MSc students in science teaching
Alumni
- 4,133 Post Doc alumni
- 4,881 PhD alumni
- 3,075 MSc alumni
Innovation
- >100 companies established since 2004 bast on Weizmann technologies
- 29 licencing agreements
- 42 MoU and option agreements
- 265 Patents granted
Campus
- Built on 400 Ha of land
- 261 buildings
- 3 greenhouse/habitats
- 5 playgrounds
- 575 residents on campus (students, post docs, scientists and their families)
- 202 children aged 4 months to 8 years living on campus
“Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them”
— President Chaim Weizmann
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