The Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the New York Academy of Sciences announced this week the laureates of the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel.
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This year's Laureates, who will each receive US$100,000 are Shai Carmi, PhD (Life Sciences) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, recognized for fundamental contributions to the fields of population and medical genetics; Rina Rosenzweig, PhD (Chemistry) from the Weizmann Institute of Science, recognized for discovering the regulatory mechanism by which a particular class of proteins, "chaperones", drive the innate ability of our cells to prevent and reverse protein aggregation – a phenomenon associated with many neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's diseases; and Zvika Brakerski, PhD (Physical Sciences and Engineering) from the Weizmann Institute of Science, recognized for developing the first efficient encryption algorithm that allows cloud computers to perform computations on encrypted data without the need to first decrypt them.
The scientists were selected among 40 nominations received from eight universities across the country.
