Dear members of the Systems Biology Community at the Weizmann Institute,

We are glad to announce the 7th round of the Innovative Award in systems biology. Teams of 2-3 people (consisting of anyone who is not a PI) from two different labs each are encouraged to form a collaboration and to propose and present a new research project.

Theme

This year's (2022) theme is: Systems Biology from basic to translational research

Process

Each team should prepare an abstract of 200 words and a lecture presentation, describing the proposal.
The abstract and the presentation should consist the following:

1. The biological question, including background

2. How do you plan to study this

3. What are the expected outcomes and significances

presentations

All proposals should be presented in a 3-minutes oral presentation, in a special hybrid event both frontal in Botnar auditorium, Belfer building & via zoom on February 2nd-3rd between 14:00-16:00.

All proposals will be ranked by all participants and the PIs.

Dates

January 26th
Send your abstracts and presentation on to ruth.towers@weizmann.ac.il.
The title of the email should be “Abstract for the Systems Biology award”.

February 2nd or 3rd between 14:00-16:00
Oral presentation

Award

An award of $ 5,000-10,000 will be allocated to each selected project.

Winners of last year's project are listed here

Looking forward to your innovative and exciting ideas!

Tzachi Pilpel