Making Connections Australia
Weizmann Australia’s Making Connections programme brings scientists from Australia and Israel together to share knowledge and expertise. The programme’s purpose is to establish scientific cooperation between the Weizmann Institute of Science and Australian scientists by providing funding to initiate research collaborations.
Bringing a variety of scientific perspectives and knowledge together has many benefits, including increasing the speed and ability to conduct complex research projects through the pooling of multidisciplinary expertise and resources.
Making Connections in Australia began in 2013, based on a model developed between Israel and the UK. It’s a donor funded programme which has seen over $0.5 million in grants distributed between 2013 and 2017. Two Making Connections symposia were run in 2014 and 2017, one on diabetes research and one on Cancer. Each was attended by Weizmann and Australian scientists, where long-lasting and fruitful relationships and scientific collaborations were formed.
If you have any queries or would like more information please contact Weizmann Australia
Latest news
How Rats Avoid Being Fooled by Their Own Whiskers
Japanese researchers and a Weizmann Institute of Science team have revealed an engineering marvel inside rat whisker follicles, shedding light on their extraordinary sensory system. More than two decades ago, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science made an...
Memory Particles
Weizmann Institute scientists have found new evidence for a particle system that ‘remembers' its previous quantum states – a significant step toward the development of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve...
An Alarming Trend Climate Models Are Missing
North Pacific winter storm tracks are shifting toward the North Pole faster than predicted according to new research from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Google Research. Alaska’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating pace, losing roughly 60 billion tons of...
Instead of Fighting Cancer Resistance, Put It to Work
Three resistance mutations identified in the Weizmann Institute of Science laboratory of Professor Yardena Samuels may become targets for powerful new immunotherapies. One of the most challenging moments in cancer treatment comes when a therapy stops working. In many...
Resurrected Tissue
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have solved a 50-year-old mystery, uncovering the molecular mechanism that enables tissue regeneration after extensive damage. The findings may pave the way for treatments that help prevent cancer from returning. Like a...
New Study Reveals Sex Hormones Reset Our Body Clocks
This Weizmann Institute of Science study may shed new light on disruptions to the circadian clocks during menstruation, pregnancy and menopause. Disruptions to our circadian clocks – the internal molecular timekeepers ‘ticking’ in nearly every cell of our body...
The Biochip Built for the Next Pandemic
A new tool developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science could help prepare us for the next viral threat. In 2020, as scientists around the world were racing to understand COVID-19, Professor Roy Bar-Ziv and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science...
From the Volcanic Crater to the Lab: A Lesson in Survival
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have discovered how organisms thrive at temperatures above 80 degrees Celsius. “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative,” wrote H. G. Wells. This principle – that survival requires change – was mastered...
Turning the Tumour’s Shield into a Sword
New research at the Weizmann Institute of science shows a new class of immune-activating molecules can awaken anti-tumour immunity by targeting the tumour’s own defences. Immunotherapy, which harnesses our body’s own immune system to fight cancer, has revolutionised...
Domination over Nature
New research quantifying wildlife has revealed the human impact – that human movement is 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined; livestock biomass up 400% and wild mammals down 70% over the past two centuries. Wolves roaming the Mongolian steppes...