Dr. Naif Jaros, a young researcher from Shfaram, will receive today (January 5, 2004) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the President's Award for Outstanding Young Researcher named after the late Prof. Yoram Ben-Forat
Dr. Geros is on the faculty of the Department of Molecular Biology and teaches at the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University. In an innovative and leading research, Dr. Geros succeeded in deepening the understanding of the process of processing the RNA molecules which are necessary for the translation of the genetic information into protein. The results of the study were published in part in October 2003 in the scientific journal Molecular Cell.
Dr. Jaros (39) was born in Shafaram to a Christian Arab family whose parents are teachers. He studied in state schools in the city until he arrived at the Hebrew University where he graduated with a PhD in science. He did his post doctorate at Yale University. Dr. Jaros has been a lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology since 2000.
In 1989 he received an award from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University for his M.Sc thesis. excellent He won a scholarship from the Kahanof Foundation and received research grants from, among others, the National Science Foundation, the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and the Swiss Avis-Frenkel Foundation. Dr. Naif Jaros, married and the father of a girl, lives with his family in Jerusalem.
The Ben-Forat Prize is awarded every year by the president of the Hebrew University in memory of Prof. Yoram Ben-Forat, the former president of the university, who was killed with his wife and young son in a car accident that happened in 1992 on the way to Eilat.
