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Max Planck Society opens Jerusalem office

Posted on January 12, 2025

The Max Planck Society’s new office in Jerusalem aims to strengthen scientific partnerships between Israel and Germany. It will serve as a crucial hub for maintaining and expanding connections between the Max Planck Society (see here) and Israeli researchers. https://www.mpg.de/23817894/max-planck-society-opens-office-in-israel

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Muslim professor’s Israeli University lab

Posted on October 27, 2024

Prof. Muhammad Y. Bashouti graduated from the Hebrew Uni, earned his PhD at the Technion, researched at the Max Planck Institute and returned to set up his lab at Ben Gurion University. With nanotechnology of materials he can develop sensors … Continue reading →

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50 years of research exchange

Posted on December 17, 2023

Germany’s Max Planck Society celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Minerva Foundation fellowship program with the visit to Israel of a delegation of members. Minerva has enabled the exchange between Germany and Israel of more than 2,000 young researchers. https://www.timesofisrael.com/while-us-jews-say-they-dont-feel-safe-on-campus-german-academics-show-up-for-israel/ … Continue reading →

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Awards for BreezoMeter

Posted on June 28, 2020

Israeli air-quality app BreezoMeter has added a second consecutive Red Herring award to its industry prizes. (see previous here). It was again placed in Red Herring’s European Top 100 in the “cleantech” category. Also, it received a new EU Horizon … Continue reading →

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Tiny propellers can steer to the cells

Posted on July 6, 2014

Nano-sized propellers have been developed by researchers at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. They have the potential to deliver cancer-killing chemicals directly to tumors without harming healthy cells. http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Smallest-ever-cancer-busting-nano-propellers-developed-by-Israeli-German-team-360182

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New Israeli-German lab for neurological illnesses

Posted on March 23, 2014

The Weizmann Institute and the Max Planck Society are establishing a laboratory for Experimental Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurogenetics in Rehovot. Headed by Weizmann Professor Alon Chen it will research cognitive, emotional, behavioral and neurological disorders. http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Israeli-German-lab-launched-to-study-neurological-illnesses-344452

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More power to the brain

Posted on January 6, 2013

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Max Planck Society of Germany are to build a 3 million euro Brain Research Center on the Hebrew U’s Givat Ram site in the nation’s capital. It is hoped that the research will … Continue reading →

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