The Israel Cancer Research Fund has awarded $4.3 million in new funding to Israeli researchers searching for cures and treatments, among them are 10 Fulbright Israel alumni. Read the full "Israel 21C" article HERE.
Congrats to:
Dr. Irit Ben-Aharon
Professor Aaron Ciechanover
Dr. Rony Dahan
Professor Naama Geva-Zatorsky
Dr. Erez Levanon
Professor Ofer Mendelboim
Dr. Michael Milyavsky
Professor Yitzak Pilpel
Professor Asya Rolls
Professor Ronit Satchi-Fainaro
On September 18, Leaders in the field from Rhode Island and Israel will provide their insights and perspectives on how disruptive neuroscience technologies are changing the world. Among them will speak our wonderful Fulbright fellow Dr. Rachel Rac-Lubashevsky, a postdoc fellow at Brown University.
To learn more about the event, follow the link .
The Fulbright commission in Israel is currently seeking qualified candidates to fill the following position:
80% -Full-time work in Tel Aviv, flexible hours. To support the administrative activities of the commission by providing high-level administrative support, managing the Office, help planning special events and other matters assigned by the Director.
Duties and Responsibilities
• To answer telephone, and provide adequate information to callers.
• Coordinate appointments& meetings, maintain calendar (manually and electronically).
• Perform general office and administrative tasks
• Establish and update files, records, accounts and other information as needed to support and document functional operations and activities.
• Keep office space organized and friendly to staff and guests.
• Assist the staff in special event operations.
• Other duties as assigned by the director.
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree (in all fields)
• 3 year work experience
• Excellent communication and organization skills.
• High energy and commitment.
Qualifications
• English and Hebrew at the mother tongue level - speech, reading and writing !
• Must possess good interpersonal skills/human relations
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suites and applications to include Excel.
Applications are submitted through the following link:
http://www.tfaforms.com/359754?tfa_1=01817&tfa_16=MTM
Only appropriate applications will be answered!
A new exhibition has opened at Bay College by Terri Warpinski, Fulbright Senior Scholar 2000 to the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.
Surface Tension will be open till September 18, including an Artist Talk and a reception on September 3rd.
For more details click here.
Professor Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Fulbright Post-Doctoral Alumni 2001 to Harvard University, together with a group of researchers from Tel Aviv University, published a new article at Nature Nanotechnology magazine about a nano-vaccine for melanoma. Until now the vaccine has been proven effective in mice in preventing the development of melanoma and in treating primary tumors and metastases that result from the disease.
For the full article.
Photo by Ronit Satchi-Fainaro.
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