20 December 2020 | Weizmann in Australia
A study of melanoma cells explains a puzzling response they exhibit to ward off T cell attacks. Cancers like melanoma are hard to treat, not least because they have a...
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17 June 2020 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Science can be complex and often hard to ‘see’. But a scientific animator’s skill can change that by bringing it all to life, not just for the scientist but the...
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8 June 2020 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
The public are invited to an exclusive one hour webinar featuring two intriguing speakers from different perspectives of the COVID-19 crisis: Olfaction at the epicentre of COVID-19 Professor Noam Sobel...
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15 April 2020 | Weizmann in Australia
The Weizmann Institute of Science has set up the Weizmann Coronavirus Response Fund which aims to raise approximately $25 million for the urgent dissemination of support to its scientists working...
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27 February 2020 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Applications are now open for talented, science-oriented, Australian high school graduates of 2019 to participate in the 2020 International Summer Science Institute (ISSI), at the Weizmann Institute of Science in...
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13 January 2020 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
In November 2019, the first Garvan-Weizmann Symposium was held in Israel, coinciding with the Weizmann Institute of Science’s 70th anniversary celebrations plus the 71st meeting of its international board. Weizmann’s...
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11 January 2020 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia
In 2016 the Garvan-Weizmann partnership was formalised during an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce NSW mission to Israel, led by the NSW Premier of the time, Mr Mike Baird. A memorandum...
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8 January 2020 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Two-time Weizmann scholar Matt Goh is heading to the University of Oxford after recently graduating with First Class Honours in theoretical physics from the Australian National University (ANU). But not...
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4 December 2019 | Weizmann in Australia
The Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics was celebrated at the Annual General Meeting of the International Board on November 13 in the presence of many Australian friends and scientists. Jillian...
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26 August 2019 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
In July 2019 three lucky high school science graduates attended the month long, annual Weizmann Institute of Science’s International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) in Israel. These were Caleb McKenna (University...
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14 June 2019 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Recently we announced that three lucky young people had won the Weizmann Australia scholarship to attend the 2019 Weizmann Institute of Science’s Dr Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) in...
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26 May 2019 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
This year, there are three Australian high school graduate winners of the Weizmann Australia scholarship now destined to attend the 2019 Weizmann Institute of Science’s Dr Bessie F. Lawrence International...
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26 February 2019 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Applications are now open for talented, science-oriented, Australian high school graduates of 2018 to participate in the Weizmann Institute of Science’s 2019 Dr Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute...
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29 January 2019 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Making the invisible, visible and teaching Australian high-school teachers innovative ways to educate students about cellular genomics, was the focus of a unique, four-day Weizmann-Garvan collaborative education program held on...
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19 December 2018 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in the News
The Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics has only been open for 16 months, but statistics from the Australian-Israeli medical research joint venture show it is already a hive of activity....
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31 August 2018 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia
One year ago, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, came together to form the Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, with a cornerstone physical centre in Darlinghurst,...
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23 August 2018 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
During July, two high school science graduates – Dominic Agius, now at Sydney University, and Milan Leonard, now at the Australian National University – attended the month long, annual Weizmann...
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29 July 2018 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in the News
As reported recently in Australian Jewish News by Shane Desianik The potential to uncover cures and personalised treatments for cancer through advancements in genomic medicine was significantly boosted earlier this...
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30 March 2018 | Garvan-Weizmann Partnership, Weizmann in Australia
The Weizmann Institute of Science’s key Australian partner – The Garvan Institute of Medical Research – has appointed leading immunology scientist, Professor Chris Goodnow FAA FRS, as its next Executive...
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21 March 2018 | Weizmann in Australia, Weizmann in Israel
Just think of this: you are in a lab working on developing a strategy against cancer that will trigger the body’s early detection of tumours; studying surfaces using scanning tunnelling...
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