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May 6, 2025
2025 Laureates of the Prestigious Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel Announced

The Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and The New York Academy of Sciences announced today the Laureates of the prestigious 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel. This year’s Laureates, who will each receive US$100,000, are: Yonatan Stelzer, PhD (Life Sciences) – Weizmann Institute of Science, Benjamin Palmer, PhD (Chemical Sciences) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Chaim Garfinkel, PhD (Physical Sciences & Engineering) – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel will be conferred at a ceremony in June 2025 at the Peres Center for Peace & Innovation in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.

Scientific Research
March 13, 2025
Len Blavatnik: Family Offices ‘Should Invest’ to Power Growth of UK Life Sciences Sector

Philanthropists and family offices have a vital role to play by seizing the high-risk, high-reward opportunities that can lead to groundbreaking innovation, said Sir Leonard Blavatnik. Family offices are ideally placed to power the next generation of British biotech and life sciences companies, according to Sir Leonard Blavatnik. ‘Family offices should invest,’ said Sir Leonard, speaking exclusively to Spear’s at Kensington Palace, the venue for a gala dinner where the winners of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom were announced last week.

Scientific Research
March 3, 2025
Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards Fuel Translational Research

Three research teams have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards, an annual awards program that aims to progress promising discovery science at Harvard Medical School toward the creation of new medicines that could be life-changing for patients. Now in its fifth and concluding year, the Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards have supported 20 research projects. Of the 17 projects awarded in the first 4 years of the program, four have already progressed to either the founding of a new company or licensing of the technology as part of a start-up. Two additional projects may enter clinical trials within the next year.

Scientific Research
February 24, 2025
Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale to Support 15 Breakthrough Interventions in Cardiometabolic, Autoimmunity, Dermatology, and Oncology, and More

Since 2017, Yale and the Blavatnik Family Foundation have partnered to propel promising research beyond the university walls, bridging the gap between discovery and real-world application. Through the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, a $65 million accelerator fund managed by Yale Ventures, 90 unique projects have led to 23 startups, 4 acquisitions, nine investigational new drug (IND) clearances, and work across diverse therapeutic modalities. This year’s fifteen awardees continue that legacy, tackling some of the most urgent life science challenges with projects spanning novel therapeutics to AI-powered medical solutions.

Scientific Research
February 24, 2025
Small Harvard Start-Up Launches to Fight Huge Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance

North Carolina biotech Kinvard Bio launched on Monday with a mission to develop next-generation drugs that can combat rising “superbugs.” Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the World Health Organization’s top public health concerns globally, claiming nearly 5 million lives per year. Kinvard’s launch on Monday was backed by the venture investment firm Kineticos Life Sciences, while much of the scientific groundwork done at Harvard was supported by the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator and the Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X).

Scientific Research
December 17, 2024
Yale Ventures is Seeking Three Full-Time Blavatnik Fellows to Join the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in New Haven

This one-year fellowship is ideal for high-potential professionals with expertise in therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and/or digital health, offering a unique opportunity to work closely with Yale faculty and research teams on breakthrough life science technologies. Blavatnik Fellows have the opportunity to collaborate with world-class innovators and leverage Yale’s $65M grant fund to explore the commercial potential of cutting-edge research, develop entrepreneurial skills, and transition into leadership roles in biotech startups, Yale spinouts, or healthcare investment after completing the program. The deadline to apply is February 14, 2025.

Higher Education
November 22, 2024
Meet the Presenters: Yale Innovators Announced for the 2024 Yale Life Sciences Pitchfest

Yale Ventures is pleased to announce the 34 Yale faculty members who have been selected to present at the Yale Life Science Pitchfest on December 5, 2024. The event will showcase groundbreaking research in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health, with presenters delivering 5-minute pitches followed by 3-minute Q&A sessions with a panel of judges. The annual event, hosted by Yale Ventures, serves as the semifinals for The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, an accelerator fund dedicated to advancing the commercialization of applied research and technology in the life sciences.

Blavatnik Awards
October 29, 2024
Cal Tech Professor and 2022 Blavatnik Awards National Laureate, Hosea Nelson, on the Value of a Chemistry Education

Listen to the Bloomberg Businessweek podcast as Bloomberg News Higher-Education Finance Reporter Janet Lorin and Hosea Nelson, Professor of Chemistry at Cal Tech, discuss why chemistry and science should be taught to encourage students and not to weed them out. Nelson was the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientist Laureate in Chemistry. He was recognized for his work popularizing a technique called microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) that can determine the positions of atoms within small molecules with unprecedented detail—particularly small molecules that are useful for drug development and industrial chemical production.

Blavatnik Awards
October 8, 2024
Israeli-American Scientist, Who Won Top US Research Prize, Credits Her Jewish Identity for Her Resilience

Cigall Kadoch was inspired to become a medical researcher as a teenager when her caretaker, whom she saw as a mentor, got sick and died suddenly. Kadoch not only trained as a medical researcher—in college at the University of California, Berkeley and then a doctorate in cancer biology from Stanford School of Medicine—but after establishing her own lab, at age 28, in 2014, she is “one of the youngest scientists ever appointed to the Harvard Medical School faculty,” per her Dana-Farber bio. Last month, she landed one of the most prestigious scientific awards in the United States, the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. She credits much of her success, and her outlook, to her Jewish identity.

Blavatnik Awards
October 2, 2024
Ohio State Professor Named Blavatnik National Awards Finalist

David Nagib, an organic chemist and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The Ohio State University, has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. The award celebrates exceptional early career scientists under 42 years of age who have sought to innovate their field by pursuing high-risk, high-reward research. On Oct. 1, Nagib was honored in New York City at the American Museum of Natural History during the 2024 Blavatnik Awards Gala ceremony.

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