The United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) is a

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-awarding institution that promotes

collaborative Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...

research in a wide range of basic and applied scientific disciplines, established in 1972 by an agreement between the governments of the United States and Israel. Numerous scientists participating in BSF programs have won prestigious awards such as the Nobel, Lasker and

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prizes. The Foundation grant recipients include 43 Nobel Prize laureates, 19 winners of the

Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is one of four annual awards presented by the Lasker Foundation. The Lasker-DeBakey award is given to honor outstanding work for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of diseas ...

, and 38 recipients of the Wolf Prize.Examples of a few of the many BSF grantee prizewinners are: *the 2006 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award to

Elizabeth Blackburn Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, S ...

(BSF grantee),

Carol Greider Carolyn Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She joined the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Distinguished Professor in the department of molecular, cell, and developmental biology ...

, and

Jack Szostak Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952) is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexand ...

for the prediction and discovery of

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The Lasker Foundation
*the 2004 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine winners

Richard Axel Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946) is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work on the olfactory system won hi ...

(BSF grantee) and

Linda B. Buck Linda Brown Buck (born January 29, 1947) is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel, for their work on olfactory receptors. She ...

; and 2004 Nobel prize in Chemistry to

Aaron Ciechanover Aaron Ciechanover ( ; he, אהרן צ'חנובר; born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. Biography Early ...

(BSF grantee)
All Nobel Prize Laureates
*the 2008 Wolf Foundation prize in medicine to Aaron Razin (BSF grantee) and

Howard Cedar Howard Chaim Cedar (Hebrew: חיים סידר; born January 12, 1943) is an Israeli American biochemist who works on DNA methylation, a mechanism that turns genes on and off. Biography Howard Chaim Cedar was born in the United States. He rece ...

Wolf Foundation Prizes in Medicine
and the 2005 Wolf Foundation prize in mathematics to Gregory A. Margulis (BSF grantee) and Sergei Novikov
Wolf Foundation Prizes in Mathematics.
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Funding and structure

The BSF's income is derived from interest on an

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of $100 million which was established in equal parts by the United States and Israeli governments. The organization is governed by a

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consisting of five American and five Israeli members, appointed by their respective governments. The BSF's

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is in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

Grants

Grants are awarded on a competitive,

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basis, a process juried by scientists from the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

and around the world. To be eligible for consideration, grant requests must be of outstanding scientific quality and demonstrate substantive collaboration between American and Israeli principal investigators. They must be for peaceful purposes and conducted under the aegis of

not-for-profit A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

institutions such as universities,

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s and governmental bodies.

Memorial Awards

;The Bergmann Memorial Award :The award for ''promising young scientists'', established in February 1976, to honor professor E.D. Bergmann ( - 1975), an organic chemistry researcher and one of the leaders who established the BSF. ;The Neufeld Memorial Award :The award on ''new projects in the health sciences'', established in 1987, to honor professor

Henry Neufeld Henry Neufeld (March 1923 – December 1986), was an internationally prominent Israeli cardiologist and scholar. His research and teaching interests included cardiology, epidemiology, genetics and biomedical engineering. He served as chief scient ...

( - December 1986), the chief scientist of the Israel Ministry of Health, and the founder and director of the Cardiac Clinic in

Sheba Medical Center Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer ( he, המרכז הרפואי ע"ש חיים שיבא – תל השומר), also Tel HaShomer Hospital, is the largest hospital in Israel, located in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan at Tel HaShome ...

. ;The Pazy Memorial Award :The award on ''new projects in the mathematical sciences'', established in 2007, to honor professor

Amnon Pazy Amnon Pazy, אמנון פזי (10 January 1936 – 17 August 2006) was an Israeli mathematician who specialized in partial differential equations (PDE), making important contributions to the PDE field and Semigroups. He served as president of th ...

( - August 2006), a mathematician, the presidency of

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

, and the chairperson of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education VATAT.

References

External links

Official website
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