Kelly Avidan, Director
Department of Resource Development,
Weizmann Institute of Science
Alon Chen, President-Elect, Weizmann Institute of Science
Gili Bisker, Zuckerman Faculty Scholar, Tel Aviv University
Eric Gertler, Trustee, Zuckerman Institute
Marissa Gross Yarm, Head of International Affairs, Strategy and International Affairs Division, Israeli Council for Higher Education
Rahav Shalom Revivo, Manager, Fintech and Cyber Innovations at the Israel Ministry of Finance
Irit Idan, Executive Vice President of Research Development, RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems
Moderator: Lisa Lewin, Vice President, BNY Mellon’s Pershing NY
Q and A
Dina Ben-Yehuda, Dean, Hadassah – Hebrew University School of Medicine
> Professor Ben-Yehuda will speak about her lifelong commitment to cancer patients.
Yael Yaniv, Associate Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
> Associate Professor Yaniv will speak about her latest efforts to develop new drug treatments.
Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, NASA
Dr. Gili Bisker, Tel Aviv University. Principal Investigator, Bisker Lab for Novel Nanomaterials for Probing Living Systems at the Nano-Scale
Dr. Limor Freifeld, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Principal Investigator, Neuro-Engineering Laboratory
Dr. Moran Shalev-Benami, Weizmann Institute of Science. Principal Investigator, Shalev-Benami Lab for Visualization of Macromolecular Complexes
Dr. Hadas Soifer, Tel Aviv University. Principal Investigator, Hadas Soifer Lab
Moderator: Dr. Danny Ben-Zvi, Zuckerman Faculty Scholar. Principal Investigator, Ben-Zvi Lab for Systems Physiology of Obesity and Diabetes
Ada Yonath, Director, Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure & Assembly at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009
Yaffa Zilbershats, Chair, Planning and Budgeting Committee, Israeli Council for Higher Education