Prof. Ehud Gazit Receives Meitner-Humboldt Research Award

The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and the Shmunis School for Biomedicine and Cancer Research would like to congratulate Prof. Ehud Gazit for being awarded the Meitner-Humboldt Research Award for 2024 by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

The prize was given to Prof. Gazit in recognition of his long and successful career in the fields of nanotechnology, biochemistry, and biophysics in his capacity as an internationally outstanding research individual.

Prof. Gazit is one of the most prolific inventors in the Israeli academy, whose research has led to the development of over 100 patents. He also published nearly 400 articles, and his works are very highly cited. His lab specializes in understanding how biological molecules are organized on a nanometric scale in order to understand the fundamental mechanism of molecular self-assembly and develop innovative functional materials and therapeutic agents for degenerative diseases and other disorders. He is a fellow of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry, a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Science in India, and one of the few Israeli professors who are elected fellows of the US National Academy of Inventors.

The Meitner-Humboldt Research Award has been awarded since 1991 in collaboration between the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology, and Space (MOST). It is named in memory of the Austrian nuclear physicist Lise Meitner and the German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.