Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program

Prof.Ada Yonath believes that scientific achievement should speak for itself, so the prize is open to outstanding young researchers of all backgrounds. Watch

The Ada Yonath Zuckerman Prize for Emerging Scientific Leadership is a new annual award from the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program. zuckermanstem.org/the-ada-yo… Each year it will recognize one outstanding young scientist at one of Israel’s eight research universities, a researcher whose breakthrough work in STEM has the potential to reach the very highest levels of global science. The prize was announced in October 2026 at the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program

The Annual Zuckerman STEM Leadership Forum, Monday, Oct 19, 2026
6:00 – 9:00 PM Join us as we welcome our newest cohort of scholars, honor the partnerships that made this decade possible, and look toward the next ten years. zuckermanstem.org/event/cele…

What makes neuroscience the most prominent field of research among Zuckerman Faculty Scholars?
👉 Meet the Zuckerman scholars behind the research! @Spiegel_Lab @LimorFreifeld @MayaMaorNof @AssafRamot @MichalRamot @DekelRosenfeld @itay_raphael @ShaniSternLab @RevahLab @Einavtf zuckermanstem.org/focus-neur…

7 years on X. 10 years of impact 280 postdocs · 62 labs · 7 universities
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Six Zuckerman Faculty Scholars Awarded Prestigious BSF Grants. Congratulations to @HebrewU Faculty Scholars @DannyBenZvi Einav Tayeb-Fligelman and @itay_raphael , @TelAvivUni Faculty Scholars @AssafRamot and @DekelRosenfeld and @UofHaifa Faculty Scholar @ShaniSternLab Stern. The winning research projects: ▪Danny Ben-Zvi:  Control of gastric and intestinal ghrelin secretions ▪Einav Tayeb-Fligelman: Influence of microbiome-derived metabolites in Alzheimer’s disease ▪Itay Raphael: Epigenetic approaches to strengthening immunotherapy for H3K27M-mutant gliomas ▪Assaf Ramot:  Affect of stress on motor cortical dynamics and learning ▪Dekel Rosenfeld: Remote magnetothermal stimulation to enhance collagen fiber remodeling in the periodontal ligament ▪Shani Stern: Using patient-derived fibrils and brain organoids to study cell-specific pathology in Parkinson’s disease, multiple system atrophy zuckermanstem.org/spotlight/…

From all of us at the Zuckerman Israel Institute and the Zuckerman Family Foundation, we wish our friends, scholars, and colleagues a happy and peaceful Jewish New Year. Shana Tova!

Congratulation to @Zoharnon Zuckerman Israeli Postdoctoral Scholar (Alum) at Columbia University,  for joining the faculty in the Department of Biotechnology Engineering at @bengurionu University of the Negev. Dr. Arnon’sresearch spans programmed biological systems, DNA nanotechnology, and bioinspired materials. His appointment marks an exciting step in a multidisciplinary research career that bridges nanotechnology, biology, chemistry, and physics.

Congratulation to Zuckerman Israeli Postdoctoral Scholar Tal Gordon (alumna), for joining the faculty of @bengurionu University of the Negev, where she has opened a lab on the university’s Eilat campus. Her lab studies regeneration and wound response in marine invertebrates, with a focus on tunicates. Her new research program builds on her broader work in marine regeneration and aims to uncover fundamental mechanisms that shape how animals repair and rebuild tissues after injury.