Some of the best brains in Israel and the United States are paired up this year to do brain research.
The catalyst that brought them together was the Henry J. Leir Brandeis-Israel Research Initiative, a $750,000 grant to strengthen collaborations among Israeli scientists and their peers at Brandeis University in Massachusetts involved in “Sustaining the Mind,” a project to probe the science underlying Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and other neurological diseases affecting millions.
Eytan Domany, Avraham Yaron and Misha Tsodyks of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, and Noam Ziv of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, traveled to Brandeis last August to present their research to faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students at the Leir Foundation Neuroscience Symposium.
“We are very excited to be part of an initiative that, in the long term, will enable innovation that begins in the laboratory and extends to the global stage, allowing for new lines of inquiry and groundbreaking research,” said Brandeis Provost Steve A.N. Goldstein.
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