The Blavatnik Awards for Young
Scientists distinguishes one laureate in each discipline by highlighting their
extraordinary achievements, recognizing exceptional promise for future
discoveries, and accelerating innovation through one of the largest unrestricted
prizes ever created for early-career researchers. The prizes are awarded
annually to three outstanding scientists, aged 42 years or younger, who each
receive US$100,000.
The Blavatnik Awards were
established in 2007 by the Blavatnik Family Foundation to
honor and celebrate exceptional young scientists (faculty and post-doctoral) in
the United States. In March 2017, marking a decade since the establishment of
the awards and as part of a cooperation agreement between the New York Academy
of Sciences and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, it was announced
that the Blavatnik Awards will also be offered in Israel.
Candidates for the awards can be
nominated by all Israeli universities. The Blavatnik Awards program is administered
jointly by the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) and the Israel Academy of
Sciences and Humanities (IASH). The program in Israel is overseen by a Scientific Advisory Council co-chaired by Israel Academy member and Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Aaron Ciechanover and
NYAS President and CEO Nicholas B. Dirks. Israeli members of the Scientific
Advisory Council are Israel Academy President Prof. David Harel, Former
Academy President Prof. Nili Cohen, Prof.
Issac Ben Israel and Israel Academy members Prof. Yadin Dudai, Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser, Prof. Adi Kimchi, Prof. Moti Segev and Prof. Itamar Willner.
Three Israeli Blavatnik Awards
laureates are chosen annually by disciplinary juries comprising some of the
world’s most distinguished scientists and engineers. The jury chairs are
Academy Members Prof. Naama Barkai, Prof. Yosef Kost, and Prof. Sarit Kraus.
Laureates of the seventh annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in
Israel (2024):
