The 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists ceremony took place on June 4 at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Three early-career scientists from Israeli universities were each awarded an unrestricted grant of $100,000 for their groundbreaking research across three key scientific fields: Life Sciences; Chemical Sciences; and Physical Sciences & Engineering. The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel are given alongside the international awards presented annually in the United States and Britain.
The prestigious Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel went to three early-career scientists among 36 nominees and also include a $100,000 grant for each one for their groundbreaking research in three fields. The Israeli Broadcast Corporation's English News Program interviewed Chemical Sciences laureate, Dr. Benjamin Palmer, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is being recognized for his pioneering research on how organisms form crystals.
Overall rates of premature deaths related to cardiovascular disease is down about 70 percent since its 1968 peak. Still, heart disease remains the leading cause of death for Americans. With help from Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD), the University patented the new molecule and licensed it to Tectonic Pharmaceuticals, a company Kruse founded. Fewer than five years after the original prototype, Tectonic is now testing an updated version of Erlandson’s molecule in Phase 2 clinical trials. Harvard’s Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator provided funding and business development support to advance the technology toward commercialization. Other technologies aim to treat other advanced stages of heart disease. With funding support from Harvard’s Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, stem cell and regenerative biology professor Richard T. Lee and engineering professor Jia Liu are co-developing a flexible, tissue-like device designed to both detect and stop atrial fibrillation — an irregular heart rhythm that can lead to stroke and heart failure. “If you could stop it before it gets going, then you really have something,” Lee said.
This year, the Blavatnik Acceleration Fund at Columbia Engineering will support four teams researching bladder cancer, embryonic brain development, spontaneous preterm birth, and the basis of common language disorders. These awards are supported by the School’s Blavatnik Fund for Engineering Innovations in Health, made possible with the generous support from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Columbia Engineering alumnus Len Blavatnik MS’91.
In fall 2021, Fordham received a $250,000 gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, established by Ukrainian-born industrialist Len Blavatnik to support the arts, culture, and the sciences at institutions around the globe. The gift in support of STEM education at Fordham included funds for student research fellowships, one of which was awarded to Biggs in fall 2023. It proved a crucial accelerant to her research, making “a world of a difference,” she said.
The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, The Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Yale, and The Roberts Innovation Fund Seeking Promising Faculty-Led Projects to Award more than $5M. Yale Ventures accelerator funds are open to faculty innovators and their teams working on cutting-edge translational research in the life sciences, digital health, autoimmunity and allergic disease, engineering, and physical sciences. The deadline for applications is October 31, 2024.
Yale's Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, whose work and research has been supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation for years, tells the New York Times about the importance of studying immune responses to the coronavirus.
The foundation has made an additional $40 million gift that will expand the number of research awards available to Yale faculty and support a wider range of biomedical research.
“Funding and other support from groups like the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator and CARB-X are essential for the discovery and development of new antibiotics,” said Curtis Keith, the Harvard accelerator’s chief…
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