"We must all mobilize to return our high quality and good forces from the laboratories abroad to the blue and white Israeli laboratories"
The President of the country, Shimon Peres, this morning in Tel Aviv opened the Israel Biomed Conference 2012, one of the largest international biomed meetings in the world. "I would love to see here a country that is led by scientists and not by politicians," Peres said at the beginning of his speech and received applause from the thousands present in the hall.
Ruthi Alon, the chairman of the conference, presented the president with a certificate of appreciation for his many years of work to encourage and promote research and development in the Israeli life sciences industry. "In the name of all of us, we thank and appreciate you for your foresight and the formulation of the vision that a cure will emerge from Zion, for your uncompromising support for research and innovation, and for your tireless work for the development and advancement of the life sciences industry in the State of Israel."
Upon receiving the signal, the President emphasized that the State of Israel must invest many resources to develop Israel's scientific reserve and biomed companies. "We must all mobilize to return our high-quality and good forces from the laboratories abroad to the blue and white Israeli laboratories," said President Peres. "The future of all of us", he said, "is precisely within us and that is where the resources should be invested today".
ILSI-Biomed Israel Week 2012, which opened in Tel Aviv, has become an international conference in over ten years of its existence, in which the biggest (and hottest) names in the world from the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices take part every year. The organizers of the event estimate that among the thousands of participants - CEOs and executives of biopharma and medical device companies, scientists and researchers, entrepreneurs, shapers of public opinion in the field, managers of venture capital funds and private investors - there are also over 1,000 guests from abroad.
The "ILSI - Biomed Israel 2012" week was held between May 23 and 25 at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv.
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There is no doubt that the phenomenon of brain drain exists, due to the lack of rewards from the state and the accumulation of bureaucratic difficulties. Consideration should be given to the future generation of scientists and scholarships should be given for the development of the most important resource of the State of Israel, the Jewish brain.