November 2021: Avraham: UK-IL conference and grants on Ageing
Prof. Karen Avraham, Edmond J. Safra member (Medicine) co-chaired and led a conference on multidisciplinary aspects of ageing research, as part of a new collaboration between Israel and the UK.
Prof. Karen Avraham, Edmond J. Safra member (Medicine) co-chaired and led a conference on multidisciplinary aspects of ageing research, as part of a new collaboration between Israel and the UK. A new £1.6 million grant program was launched for funding Israeli-British collaborations on ageing research.
The conference was a joint initiative of the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange (BIRAX) partnership, TAU, the British Council in Israel and the UK Embassy. It is the 5th BIRAX conference since its launch ten years ago.
Among the participants of the conference were the British Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Neil Wigan OBE, Chairman of the British Council, Mrs. Stevie Spring CBE, and Lord Robert Winston of Hammersmith, along with leading researchers from Israeli and British universities.
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