Patients flock to Dr. Ora Golan’s beachside clinic hoping to be freed from anxiety, marital woes, ADD and all types of phobias.
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New EU Marie Curie Prize goes to Israeli woman
Israeli biomed engineering researcher Sarit Sivan received the European Commission’s new prize for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Nurse-turned-chemist wows research world
Lital Magid’s painstaking success making compounds that mimic marijuana’s THC validate her choice to leave nursing for the lab.
The Israeli pharmacologist who kick-started marijuana research
‘Working in a small country certainly has its positive aspects,’ Raphael Mechoulam says. ‘It couldn’t have happened in the United States.’
The prizes in the Cedar closet
Dr. Howard Cedar wins acclaim for discovering how genes become specialized, while his filmmaker son wins Oscar nominations.
‘Prof. Happiness’ returns to Israel
Positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course at Harvard, but decided he’d be happiest back home.
Still inventing after all these years
‘This country saved my life,’ says 91-year-old microbiologist Nathan Citri. In return, he is saving others with Israeli medical ingenuity.
Parkinson’s pioneer
Prof. Moussa Youdim is the driving force behind breakthrough drugs to slow the progression of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and continues to chalk up significant neurodegenerative drug innovations.
Israel’s cancer ambassador
After losing her son and brother to the disease, Miri Ziv became ‘the’ source for cancer news, breakthroughs and research in Israel.<
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