Spring Edition 2020

The coronavirus has meant major changes for every organization, including BSF. Yair Rotstein shares how BSF staff, along with nearly 1,500 grant proposal reviewers from around the world, continue working together remotely, despite all the closings and distance restrictions, to help support U.S.-Israel science partnerships.

Gordon is a world-respected mental health expert. Hotez focuses on global health and vaccines. In the past few months, they have both been interviewed by many media outlets concerning the coronavirus. Here are some highlights of their informative appearances and interviews.

Thanks to the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation - BSF Multiplier Research Grants Program, teams of scientists in Israel have partnered with contemporaries at UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). This has resulted in key funding for nine potentially transformative projects in a wide range of science fields.

Long before the coronavirus, HIV caused fear around the world. Nearly 40 years since it first spread, there is still no vaccine. Two BSF-supported scientists aim for discoveries that could help change that. The goal is to quantify the effects of every single mutation associated with HIV.

We asked current BSF grantees what they are doing to help fight the coronavirus – and the response was overwhelming. Here are brief explanations of how grantees from Israel and the United States are contributing to our knowledge and understanding of this worldwide pandemic.