{"id":84402,"date":"2018-11-27T10:41:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T08:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/azrieli-cifar-fellowship\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T08:41:40","slug":"azrieli-cifar-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/azrieli-cifar-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Azrieli CIFAR Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Naama Geva-Zatorsky of the Technion Has Won the Azrieli Foundation\u2019s Prestigious CIFAR Fellowship<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The 12 recipients were selected from 402 candidates from 55 countries<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Naama Geva-Zatorsky of the Technion\u2019s Rappaport Faculty of Medicine has received a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR )scholarship from the Azrieli Foundation. This year, 402 researchers from 55 countries submitted their candidacy for the scholarship, and the Foundation selected 12 winners from five countries: Israel, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United States, and Canada. Two of the winners are Israeli: Dr. Geva-Zatorsky and Dr. Yaniv Ziv of the Weizmann Institute\u2019s Department of Neurobiology.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers were selected based on excellence in research, potential contribution to the relevant program in CIFAR, and leadership potential outside the academy. The fund announced the winners last week and noted that the diverse areas of research interest include renewable energy, astrophysics, understanding consciousness, and the microbiota\u2019s effect on human evolution and health.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Geva-Zatorsky studies the microbiota \u2013 the microbial population that exists in our body and plays a critical role in our health. In her research, published in <\/span>CELL<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Science<\/span><\/i>, and other leading journals, she has shown that the microbiota dramatically affect the immune system\u2019s functions. While at Harvard, she developed a new technology that can track live intestinal bacteria in a living organism in real time. She says, \u201cOur technology allows us to identify the role of each bacterium in this process. In the future, we hope to produce drugs from these bacteria, customized to various immune system disruptions and diseases.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Geva-Zatorsky completed her bachelor\u2019s degree at Tel Aviv University and her MSc and PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science. After a postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School, she joined the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the Technion Integrated Cancer Center. She has been awarded the Alon Fellowship \u2013 a prestigious scholarship designed to enable the absorption of young researchers in Israeli universities \u2013 and was selected as a Horev Fellow in the Technion\u2019s program for leaders in science and technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Azrieli Foundation\u2019s website, \u201cCIFAR has been successfully taking on difficult challenges for more than three decades by undertaking global research programs connecting many of the world\u2019s best minds \u2013 across borders and between disciplines \u2013 to shape new perspectives and spark groundbreaking ideas. CIFAR offers research fellows the rarest of commodities: freedom to take the kinds of intellectual risks that are essential for creating truly transformative knowledge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The CIFAR scholarship provides researchers who are just beginning their academic careers with funding and support in building academic ties and developing the skills necessary for research leadership in academia and beyond. Since its inception in 1982, CIFAR has selected about 400 promising researchers. Each recipient receives a $100,000 research grant and is integrated into one of CIFAR\u2019s 12 programs for two years. The program helps participants present their research to colleagues, contribute to discussions, initiate new collaborations, and reach policymakers, industry leaders and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYoung people are the future of research,\u201d said CIFAR President and CEO Alan Bernstein. \u201cCIFAR is exceptionally pleased to provide financial and other support to this phenomenal group of young researchers to advance their leadership and financial skills. Their enthusiasm and energy lead to new ways of thinking that will advance science and create solutions for the challenges facing our world today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For the Azrieli Foundation\u2019s announcement about the CIFAR Global Scholars, click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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