View excerpts from the workshop Wednesday, December 2nd 2009 09.00 - 09.30
Opening Remarks and Greetings Prof. Menahem Yaari, President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (IASH)
MK Yakov Litzman (Israel), Deputy Minister of Health
MK Meir Sheetrit (Israel), Chairperson, Science and Technology Committee, Knesset
Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg, Chairperson, Planning & Budgeting Committee, Council of Higher Education
Prof. Ruth Arnon, Vice-President, IASH; Chairperson, Committee for the Assessment of the State of Biomedical Research in Israel; Weizmann Institute.
09.30 - 11.00
National Policy for the Support and Funding of Biomedical Research, Basic, Clinical and Translational
Chair: Prof. Michael Sela, IASH Member
Prof. H. Fineberg (USA), President, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Prof. Willam Paul (USA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIAID
Prof. Christopher Kennard (UK), Medical Research Council
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 13.00
National Policy for the Support and Funding of Biomedical Research (continued)
Chair: Prof. Raphael Mechoulam, Hebrew University; Chairperson, Sciences Division of IASH.
Prof. Jean-Francois Bach (France), Permanent Secretary, Academie des Sciences
Prof. Reinard Kurth (Germany), Former President of the Robert Koch Institute and the Paul Ehrlich Institute
Prof. Olle Stendahl (Sweden), Former Secretary General, Swedish Medical Research Council
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30
Biomedical R&D in Israel
Chair: Prof. Uri Seligsohn, IASH Member
Policy, Support and Funding of R&D in Israel — Overview
Mr. Igal Erlich, Deputy Chairperson, National Council for R&D
Findings and Recommendations of the Committee for the Study of Biomedical Research in Israel
Prof. Ruth Arnon
The State of Clinical Research In Israel and Its Needs
Prof. Avi Israeli, Hadassah Medical School, Former Director General, MOH
Biomedical Funding by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
Prof. Benny Geiger, Weizmann Institute; Head, Division of Life Sciences and Biomedical Research, ISF
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 17.00
Summary and Discussion
Closing Remarks
Prof. Daniel Hershkovitz (Israel), Minister of Science and Technology
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 09.00 - 10.30
National Support of Biomedical Research — Expert Panel
All presenters . Israeli and guests Chair: Prof. Alex Keynan, IASH
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Expert Panel (continued)
12.30 - 13.00
Summary and Conclusion
Prof. Ruth Arnon
13.00 . 14.00 Lunch
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