Among his most recent positions: Vice President for Research and Development at Tel Aviv University and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the knowledge commercialization company "Ramot"
Prof. Ehud Gazit has been appointed the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Minister of Science and Technology Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz announced today. Prof. Gazit, an esteemed scientist in the field of nanotechnology and world-renowned, served until recently as the vice president for research and development at Tel Aviv University and the chairman of the board of the university's knowledge commercialization company Ramot.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, welcomed the appointment and said: "We are happy to recruit a first-rate scientist to our ranks who is well versed in the academic community and the interface between academic research and its application. Prof. Gazit will continue to promote and leverage the ministry's ongoing investment in research and development and will be part of setting the scientific agenda in Israel ".
Prof. Gazit, born in 1966, completed his undergraduate studies with high honors as part of the university program for outstanding students at Tel Aviv University and his doctoral studies in 1997 at the Weizmann Institute also with the highest honors. After his return from post-doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2000 appointed a senior faculty member in the Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology at Tel Aviv University and about six years later he was already appointed a full professor. As of 2008, he is in charge of the chair of nanobiology.
Prof. Gazit has about 140 scientific publications and his research is considered groundbreaking in the field of biological and chemical nanotechnology. His research has received wide international resonance and recognition and his works are cited at a rate of about 1,000 citations per year. Gazit is also the inventor and developer of dozens of patent applications and his work, which was successfully commercialized to companies in Israel and around the world, led to the pre-clinical development of drugs related to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes diseases as well as to nanotechnological developments in the fields of energy, materials and medicine.
Prof. Gazit is an award-winning scientist, among the awards he has received over the years: the John F. Kennedy, the Higher Education Council's Badge of Merit, the Landau Award, the Dan David Scholarship and the Research Excellence Award of the Scientific Council of Tel Aviv University. In 2008, his work was chosen by the Association of Directors of Academic Technologies as one of the hundred outstanding inventions in the transition from academia to the world of application. In 2009 He won the Shlomo Hastrin Award of the Israeli Society for Biochemistry and Biology Molecular for an outstanding scientist under the age of 44.
Along with his academic activities, Prof. Gazit also engaged in extensive public activities. Among his activities: member of the advisory committee to the Minister of Defense for Defense Research and Development, member of the steering committee of the interface program - implementation of science in government, member of the executive committee of Baam University, member of the academic committee of the Israeli Center for Citizen Empowerment, and member of the advisory committee of the MIT Entrepreneurship Forum. He also served as a member of the committees and forums of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences and the National Council for Research and Development of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Prof. Gazit acknowledged the appointment today and said: "I see a great privilege in the public mission that has been assigned to me. I will contribute my experience and expertise to the cause of Israeli science and technology. Along with the main activity of promoting Israel's leading position in research and development and establishing it as a technological power, I also see great importance in the relationship between the world of science and the community and making scientific knowledge accessible to the general public."
Prof. Gazit will replace the outgoing chief scientist Prof. Danny Weiss who finished his sabbatical year and returned to his research at the Technion.
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Great people have always encountered aggressive behavior from mediocre minds. A. Einstein.
Know him.
The man is an atomic cannon.
Both an excellent scientist and industrial entrepreneur, and also a positive politician - that is, one who tries to reach the decisive positions in order to create change according to his ideological positions and not only in order to gain power and associates.
A very rational man with a rare understanding of humans. (rare in the testimony of the "Yorim" of the exact sciences)
A very nice and smart person who is not afraid to fight for what is important to him.
managed to tidy up and build a lot in the last place it was after the damage caused over the years by one old stone that was there before. (rhymes with 'ulcer')
Well done and good luck.
I wonder how he will survive in the real and dirty politics of the government.
With the impossible amount of research he did and the impossible amount of jobs he held at the same time - there are two (mutually exclusive) possibilities:
1 Albert Einstein was a scientific grasshopper in contrast,
2 Ehud Gazit is a macro-politician-nano-scientist.
We can all learn from him how to pave the way with uncompromising flattery for any reason. If someone in the Ministry of Science has doubts that the man is capable of bringing results, taking responsibility and taking matters into his own hands - he is right.
Successfully! we are behind you
A caliber scientist. Let's hope that he also has the other skills required in such a position, including the political abilities required to bring funds to the Ma'ar and allocate them wisely and fairly.
Successfully!