TAU cancer biologist among laureates of Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists

The Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the New York Academy of Sciences have announced the laureates of the 2026 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel, which recognizes their groundbreaking research taking place in Israel. Each  recipient receives $100,000 in prize money, with the awards ceremony to be held in June at the Peres Center Peace & Innovation in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. This year's recipients are Sergey N. Semenov, a chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science; Paz Beniamini, an astrophysicist at the Open University of Israel; and Uri Ben-David a cancer biologist at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Ben-David spoke earlier with KAN's Naomi Segal (Photo: Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists)  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.