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Krill Prizes for Excellence in Scientific Research

Wolf Foundation

Description

Krill Prizes for Excellence in Scientific Research are awarded in Honor and in Memory of BENJAMIN AND GITLA KRILL MANSBACH SHLANGER Z'L. Born in Germany, in 1912, he was married to Debora Kretzig Stelzer Z'L. From 1938 on, Mr. Kril Shlanger was highly active on behalf of the community in South America, Where he established a fund for the needy. He died in October 2007.

Six Krill Prizes, of $10,000 each, are awarded annually, in Exact Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, Agriculture and Engineering, to excelling faculty members at the Universities in Israel, who hold the untenured positions of Lecturer, or Senior Lecturer.

Recipients are selected by the Wolf Foundation Scholarship Committee, from among outstanding candidates, submitted by all Israeli Universities. The selection is made on the basis of the candidate´s excellence and the importance of his or her field of research.

The Krill Prizes for Excellence in Scientific Research, funded by the Krill Family, were first awarded in March 2005.

Recipients

2010

Dr. Masha Niv (born 1969, Russia)
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Research interests:
Modeling and simulations of protein interactions and dynamics, study of cellular processes and rational design of cell signaling modulators, including peptides. Focus on protein kinases and transmembrane receptors, such as receptors for taste.

Dr. Dan Thomas Major (born 1973, Norway)
Faculty of Exact Sciences
Chemistry Department
Bar-Ilan University

Research interests:
Development and application of theoretical methods for the study of biological systems and nano-materials.

Dr. Eran Halperin (born 1974, Israel)
Faculty of Exact Sciences & Life Science Faculty
The Blavatnick School of Computer Science & Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology,Tel Aviv University
Research interests:
Computational Genetics - development of computational methods for the analysis of genetic variation in the context of complex diseases.

Dr. Ehud Altman (born 1972, Israel)
Faculty of Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Weizmann Institute of Science

Research interests:
Novel phases, phase transitions and dynamics in strongly correlated quantum matter.

Dr. Kinneret Keren (born 1972, Israel)
Faculty of Physics
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Research interests:
Biophysics, biological self-organization, actin-based cell motility, artificial cells.

Dr. Anne Bernheim (born 1969, France)
Faculty of Engineering Sciences
The Chemical Engineering Department
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Research interests:
Research of the emerging field of Synthetic Biology, in which simple molecular elements are used to build artificial synthetic devices for medical and biotechnological applications