Skip to content
Menu

Category: Jewish Causes

Blavatnik Awards
September 16, 2025
Outstanding Postdoctoral Researchers Honored with 2025 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists

The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences are proud to announce the three Laureates and six Finalists of the 2025 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists, the Blavatnik Awards’ flagship prize that honors outstanding postdoctoral scientists from academic research institutions across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Honoring early-career excellence in the categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemical Sciences, the Regional Awards celebrate the most promising postdoctoral scientists in the Tri-State area’s academic institutions. This year’s honorees were selected from a highly competitive pool of 149 nominations representing 26 institutions.

Arts & Culture
September 13, 2025
The V&A’s Bowie Centre is a Thoroughly Bowie-esque Act of Reinvention

In 2023, the museum announced its acquisition of the 90,000 items in the archive. It also revealed plans to establish a David Bowie Centre in which to keep and display them. In the museum’s discreet phrasing, the venture was made possible “through the generosity of the David Bowie Estate, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group”. (Warner Music, which owns the rights to Bowie’s recorded music catalogue, and the charitable foundation set up by Leonard Blavatnik, the business tycoon whose company owns most of Warner, donated £10mn.)

Blavatnik Awards
September 9, 2025
Finalists Announced for the 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

September 9, 2025 – New York – The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences today announced the Finalists for the 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. The Awards recognize scientific advances made by researchers in the United States across the following disciplines: Life Sciences, Chemical Sciences, and Physical Sciences & Engineering. Subra Suresh, ScD, Former Director of the National Science Foundation and current President of the Global Learning Council in Switzerland, will announce the three 2025 Laureates at an October 7th awards ceremony at the American Museum of Natural History. Each Laureate will receive an unrestricted award of $250,000, the world’s largest unrestricted science prize, available for early-career scientists in the U.S. The remaining 15 Finalists will each receive $15,000. An independent jury of expert scientists selected this year’s Finalists from a pool of 310 nominees representing 161 academic and research institutions across 42 U.S. states.

Higher Education
September 8, 2025
Alumnus Appointed Junior Minister in UK Government

Keir Mather, who completed his Master of Public Policy degree in 2021 at The Blavatnik School of Government, has been appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the UK Government's Department for Transport, making him the youngest junior minister in modern times. He takes up the post after serving as an Assistant Government Whip since July 2024.

Load More

Learn More

Discover the cutting-edge science we fund

Providing many of the world's best researchers, scientists, and universities with support, and funding to discover breakthroughs that solve humankind's greatest challenges.

See how we support great cultural institutions around the world

The Foundation contributes to renowned institutions that showcase the breadth of arts and culture, including performance, exhibition and education.

Visit the Blavatnik Archive

The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia.

Back to Top
Blavatnik Family Foundation
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

You can find more information by this link