Q&A with Faculty Scholars

As we celebrate the first five years of the Zuckerman STEM Leadership program, we are more than impressed at the program’s accomplishments in such a short time.

With Mortimer Zuckerman’s vision etched into the program, we have pursued enhanced collaboration and communication between the most promising STEM scholars in the US and Israel,  bridging the gap between the scientific, business and philanthropic communities, and bringing them together with dynamic alternatives to traditional resources.

The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program has demonstrated its greatest achievements though the success of its faculty scholars. Since 2016, the Zuckerman Faculty Scholars Program has contributed to Israel’s ‘Brain Gain” by bringing 30 Israeli scientists back to Israel from the United States, building a total of 30 new laboratories at each of the seven participating Israeli universities.

We hope you will enjoy reading through the remarkable achievements of our Faculty Scholars highlighted here:

February, 2024
The Oren Lab at Tel Aviv University & The Lior Lobel at Bar-Ilan University
Demonstrating Leadership: Zuckerman Faculty Scholars – Better Together
June, 2021
Ben-Zvi Lab, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Systems Physiology and of Obesity and Diabetes
June, 2021
Bisker Lab, Tel Aviv University
Novel Nanomaterials for Probing Living Systems at the Nano-Scale
June, 2021
Complex Phototonics Lab, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Exploring Complex Systems with Light
June, 2021
Moran Dvela-Levitt lab, Bar Ilan University
“Cellular Traffic Jams”
June, 2021
Surface Physics and Interface Chemistry Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science
June, 2021
Fischer Lab, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Biomechanics and Wearable Tech
June, 2021
Neuro-Engineering Lab, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Neuro-Engineering
June, 2021
Ido Goldstein Lab, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nutrigenomics, Liver Biology & Gene Expression
June, 2021
The Harel lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Experimental Biology of Vertebrate Aging and Age-Related Diseases
June, 2021
Nano and Quantum Functional Structures Lab, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
June, 2021
Geochemistry Clean Lab, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
Revealing Processes on Earth Using the Geochemistry of Sediments and Water
June, 2021
Combustion and Diagnostics Lab, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Technion– Israel Institute of Technology
June, 2021
NepTUN Lab, Tel Aviv University
Nuclear Phototonics Research Group
June, 2021
Alon Ron Lab, Tel Aviv University
Optical spectroscopy of quantum materials
June, 2021
Nano-Bio-Optics Lab, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
June, 2021
Shalev-Benami Lab, Dept. of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute
Visualization of Macromolecular Complexes
June, 2021
The Shlezinger Lab, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Studying fungal pathogenesis and immune responses
June, 2021
Hadas Soifer Lab, Tel Aviv University
School of Physics and Astronomy
June, 2021
Spiegel Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science
How Experience Regulates Brain Function
June, 2021
Shani Stern Lab for Precision Disease Modeling, Sagol Department of Neurobiology, University of Haifa
June, 2021
Itay Tirosh Lab, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Tumor Systems Biology
June, 2021
Wurtzel Lab, Tel Aviv University
Regeneration and Stem Cell Biology
May, 2021
Weizmann Lab, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Synthetic Nucleic Acid and Plasmonic Nanomaterials Design Group