On Tuesday, June 3, 2025, the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel Science Symposium was held at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem. The symposium was opened by Prof. Michal Rivlin, from the Department of Brain Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, with a fascinating guest lecture titled “Vision in Motion: How the Early Stages of Vision are Aligned to Behavior”. The symposium included presentations by the 2025 Blavatnik Awards laureates: Prof. Yonatan Stelzer, in the category of Life Sciences; Dr. Benjamin Palmer, in the category of Chemical Sciences; and Prof. Chaim Garfinkel, in the category of Physical Sciences and Engineering.
2025 Blavatnik Award Winners Presented Their Research at a Science Symposium at the Israel Academy
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