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ELSC congratulates Johannes Niediek, PhD, for being awarded the Shimon Peres Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2020. Johannes Niediek, PhD, studied mathematics and physics at the University of Bonn, Germany. He completed his doctoral studies in neuroscience at the Department of Epileptology at the

 

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Congratulations Dr. Yoav Adam for winning the prestigious Alon Fellowship for outstanding young researchers   We are delighted to inform you that Dr. Yoav Adam has won the prestigious Alon Fellowship for outstanding young researchers. Congratulations, Yoav, on this remarkable and well-deserved

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ELSC is taking the Corona Crisis in stride! On top of the academic efforts to ensure a smooth and productive online semester, the staff, faculty, and students of ELSC are donating their knowledge, skills, and time to fight back against coronavirus and serve the community. From developing a new

Together with the global scientific effort to establish and improve laboratories’ technical ability to perform precise tests on pooled samples, the dynamic strategies proposed in the doctoral students’ paper promise to significantly increase the efficiency of the testing process, which is crucial

A team of 15 researchers and students from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center have developed a faster and cheaper way to test COVID-19. The team is now working on finding a method that will allow testing over 15,000 people simultaneously.

In preparation for the high school matriculation exams: 140 Hebrew University graduate students are volunteering to tutor high school students in schools throughout West and East Jerusalem. 

At the front-line in dealing with Coronavirus is the broad nursing and medical community, which are at risk of running out of personal protective equipment.

Prof. Merav Ahissar's team have made fascinating discoveries about the different learning patterns in dyslexia and autism  

היוזמה לחיבור בין חוקרת המוח ד"ר איילת מקיטון לאמנית אילת כרמי הייתה של האוניברסיטה העברית. כרמי מציירת את תוצאות מחקריה של מקיטון, ויחד הן מציגות לעולם איך נראה מבט משובש שמצליח לגעת בלב.

During the second half of 2019 ELSC members have published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, with publications in leading journals in the field of neuroscience, such as Cell, PNAS, Nature Communications and more. The list of publications presented here demonstrates the commitment of ELSC members to