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BGU PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2020

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NOTABLE GRANTS Four BGU researchers received the highly prestigious ERC Starting Grant : Prof. Menny Shalom , Dr. Benjamin Palmer , and Dr. Josh Baraban , all from the Dept. of Chemistry, and Dr. Deborah Toiber of the Dept. of Life Sciences. Dr. Josh Baraban also won an Alon Fellowship from the Council for Higher Education . Dr. Itzik Mizrahi of the Dept. of Life Sciences received an ERC Consolidator Grant . He also won a DIP Grant together with Prof. Edward Bayer and Prof. Ohad Medalia . Prof. Ronen Segev of the Dept. of Life Sciences and Dr. Benjamin Rosental of the Shraga Segal Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, both received grants from the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program.

Prof. Michael Danilenko and Dr. Eitan Rubin from the Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology won an ISF Precision Medicine Grant to establish a national leukemia database. Dr. Niv Papo of the Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Dept. of Biotechnology Engineering and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant . Three BGU researchers were selected as Azrieli Foundation Fellows 2019-20: Dr. Benjamin Palmer (Chemistry), Dr. Ely Kovetz  (Physics) and Dr. Jennifer Resnik (Life Sciences). Dr. Dana Vedder-Weiss of the Dept. of Education received the NARST 2020 Early Career Research Award .

 A delegation of Norwegian parliament members headed by Mr. Hans Fr. Grøvan visited Prof. Hugo Guterman's Autonomous Robotics Lab in the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering