We wish to announce that the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research is in the process of being revoked following the resolutions of the Settlor of the Foundation (The Ajax Trust) and the Board of Trustees to this effect. This action became necessary and, regretfully unavoidable, due to procedural and practical reasons. Consequently, this website will henceforth become dormant. A new Foundation, The Seroussi Foundation, Basel, Switzerland, recently established by the Ajax Trust, St. Helier / Jersey, will be examining all aspects of maintaining the sort of contributions made in the past by the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research, on an expanded scale, i.e. covering other fields in addition to cancer research. A website for The Seroussi Foundation, Basel, Switzerland, has been established and will temporarily provide preliminary information. All other relevant developments will likewise appear on this site, in due course.
Please click on www.seroussi-foundation.org for information on the newly established SEROUSSI FOUNDATION, Basel / Switzerland
December 2006
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The Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research held its annual meeting at Tel Aviv University on Thursday 30th November 2006. The Board Meeting was followed by a festive ceremony which was attended by the Award Recipients, the Chairman and the Members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation as well as some of the Panellists. Present at the Ceremony were Mrs. Reuma Weizman & family, Mr. Edouard Seroussi, Settlor of the Ajax Trust, as well as a number of personalities from Israel and abroad. Each Award Recipient presented a brief and interesting narrative of her/his research project. The keynote speaker Prof. Alexander Levitzky of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel , gave a fascinating insight into "Nanotechnology in early diagnosis and treatment of cancer".
August 2006
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1. Meeting in Zürich, Switzerland
On 29th July 2006 a meeting of Panellists and Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research was held in Zürich, Switzerland. The purpose was to allow the Board Members to act upon the decision of the majority of the Panellists concerning the Foundation's Awards for the year 2006 in the field of haematological malignancies.
1.1 Meeting of the Board of Trustees
Present at the Meeting:
- Professor Itamar Rabinovich (President, Tel Aviv University; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research)
- Mr. Brian Frith (Deputy Chairman of the Chiltern Holdings Board and a non-executive director of Chiltern (Jersey) Limited; Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research)
- Mrs. Sonya Abramovitz (active member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University)
- Professor Marvin L Corman, M.D. (Professor of Surgery, Stony Brook University, USA)
Attending as Observers:
· Prof. Kofi de Heer - Coordinator
· Ms Daphna Talgam - Advocate
1.2 Separate Meeting of Advisory Panel Members prior to communication of decision
Present at the Meeting:
- Prof. Isaac Ben-Bassat, Sheba Hospital Tel Hashomer, Israel
- Prof. George P. Canellos, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
- Prof. Thomas Cerny, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Dr. Herbert M. Dean, Verax Biomedical, Falmouth (MA), USA
2. Communication of Panellists' Decision and Selection of Award Recipients for the Annual Awards for the year 2006
A total of 31 nominee-candidates for the 2006 Annual Awards of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research had been proposed to the above Advisory Panel by a Nomination Committee appointed by the Board and constituted by some of its members. The Panel submitted to the Board its findings, decision and selection of Award Recipients.
3. Deliberation - Implementation of Panel's Decision
The Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research noted the selection of Award Recipients as unanimously decided by the Panel. The Board unanimously agreed to act upon the Panel's selection of the following Awardees:
| (1) | Prof. Volker Diehl University of Cologne Cologne, Germany |
| (2) | Prof. Wolfgang Hiddemann University of Munich Munich, Germany |
| (3) | Prof. Alexander Levitzki The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel |
| (4) | Prof. Bob Löwenberg Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| (5) | Prof. Arnon Nagler Chaim Sheba Medical Center Ramat Gan, Israel |
| (6) | Prof. Rainer F. Storb Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA, USA |
The Awards will be in the sum of US$ 150,000 each.
4. Acknowledgement and Thanks
All above 6 individuals were approved for an Award for the year 2006 and in the amounts documented.
A congratulatory letter to the Award Recipients has been sent by the Chairman of the Foundation, Prof. Itamar Rabinovich.
A letter of appreciation and thanks has also been sent by Prof. Rabinovich, in his capacity as Chairman of the Nomination Committee, to all Nominee-Candidates who were considered for an Award but were, regretfully and unfortunately, not included amongst the Award Recipients, principally due to budgetary and other internal procedural imperatives.
May 2006
Panel Starts Evaluation Process of Research Projects for Haematological Malignancies
The Chairman and Members of the Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research are proud to announce that the Panel, consisting of four prominent and internationally recognised personalities in their field, has now started the above evaluation process.
31 Nominee-Candidates have submitted their research projects which the Panellists are in the course of examining, at the moment.
A joint meeting of the Board of Trustees and the Panellists will be held in Zurich on 29th July 2006. During the meeting the Panel will submit its final decision as to the projects selected for award. The Board will then act to implement the Panel's decision and will inform the respective Award Recipients. A ceremony will be held in Tel-Aviv / Israel on 30th November 2006, during which the six selected researchers shall each receive the Jacqueline Seroussi Annual Research Award.
The Foundation wishes to express its appreciation and sincerest thanks to each member of the Panel, mentioned below, for his valuable contribution.
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Prof. Isaac Ben-Bassat Department of Haematology, Sheba Hospital Tel Hashomer / Israel |
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Prof. George P. Canellos Medical Director for Network Development Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care Harvard Medical School Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston / USA |
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Prof. Thomas Cerny Präsident Krebsliga Schweiz Chefarzt Med. Klinik C Kantonsspital St. Gallen St. Gallen, Switzerland |
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Dr. Herbert M. Dean Medical Director Verax Biomedical Falmouth (MA) USA |
December 2005
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The Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research held its annual meeting at Tel Aviv University on Thursday 1st December 2005. Decisions taken were:
Approval of the Foundation's budget for the year 2006 in the amount of US$ 1.000.000,--, most of which will be devoted to Awards to be given to upto 6 (six) meritorious individuals and/or groups who have produced and will continue to produce important work in the field of Haematological Malignancies. The amount of each Award will vary between a minimum of US$ 125.000,-- and a maximum of US$ 175.000,--, according to the merits of the projects selected. Prof. Dr. Aron Goldhirsch, Chief of Medical Oncology, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), Lugano / Switzerland, was unanimously named Coordinator for the year 2006.
Candidates will be proposed by the Nomination Committee to a Panel of experts in oncology who will make the final selection (for details see August 2004 Bulletin).
The final date for submission of nominee-candidates to the Panel is March 15, 2006.
The Panellists will evaluate the individuals and the proposals and advise the Board of Trustees of their decisions during their meeting in Zurich on 27th May 2006, to enable the Board to act upon their decisions in conformity with the Foundation's rules and regulations.
The field of research for the year 2007 will be examined by the Board during its meeting in Zurich on 27th May 2006. The research project, the procedure to be followed and the amount of awards will be clearly defined soon after the Board's decision.
The Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation's Annual Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday 30th November 2006. The place of the ceremony will be indicated in due course.
The Board Meeting was followed by a festive ceremony which was attended by the Award Recipients, the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman and the Members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation as well as some of the Panellists. Present at the Ceremony were Mrs. Reuma Weizman & family, Mr. Edouard Seroussi, Settlor of the Ajax Trust, as well as a number of personalities from Israel and abroad. Each Award Recipient presented a brief and interesting narrative of her/his research project. The keynote speaker, Prof. Umberto Veronesi of the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy, gave a fascinating insight into "Intraoperative Radiotherapy with electrons (ELIOT) during Breast Conserving Surgery".
June 2005
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1. Meeting in Zürich, Switzerland
On 28th May 2005 a meeting of Panellists and Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research was held in Zürich, Switzerland. The purpose was to allow the Board Members to act upon the decision of the majority of the Panellists concerning the Foundation's Awards for the year 2005 in the field of breast cancer disease.
1.1 Meeting of the Board of Trustees
Present at the Meeting:
- Professor Itamar Rabinovich (President, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research)
- Mr. Brian Frith (Deputy Chairman of the Chiltern Holdings Board and a non-executive director of Chiltern (Jersey) Limited; Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research)
- Mrs. Sonya Abramovitz (active member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University)
- Professor Marvin L Corman, M.D. (Professor of Surgery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA)
- Professor Aron Goldhirsch, M.D. (Director, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland)
- Professor Walter Weder, M.D. (Head, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland)
1.2 Separate Meeting of Advisory Panel Members prior to communication of decision
Present at the Meeting:
- Dr. Alberto Costa, Director, European School of Oncology, Milan, Italy
- Dr. Judy E. Garber, Director, Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
- Prof. James Ingle, Professor of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine, Rochester, USA
- Prof. Yoel Kloog, Dean, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv Uiversity, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Prof. Yehuda Skornick, Head Department of Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2. Communication of Panellists' Decision and Selection of Award Recipients for the Annual Awards for the year 2005
A total of 23 nominee-candidates for the 2005 Annual Awards of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research had been proposed to the above Advisory Panel by a Nomination Committee appointed by the Board and constituted by some of its members. The Panel submitted to the Board its findings, decision and selection of Award Recipients.
3. Deliberation - Implementation of Panel's Decision
The Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research noted the selection of Award Recipients as unanimously decided by the Panel. The Board unanimously agreed to act upon the Panel's selection of the following Awardees:
| (1) | Richard D. Gelber, PhD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston, USA |
| (2) | Prof. Yoav I. Henis Neurobiochemistry George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel |
| (3) | Prof. Joseph Kost Chemical Engineering Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva, Israel |
| (4) | C. Kent Osborne, MD Professor of Medicine & Molecular and Cell Biology Director, Breast Cancer Baylor College of Medicine Houston, USA |
| (5) | Martine Piccart, MD Chairman of BIG Chemotherapy Unit Jules Bordet Institute Brussels, Belgium |
| (6) | Prof. Umberto Veronesi Scientific Director European Institute of Oncology (EIO) Milan, Italy |
Furthermore, it was decided to give a special Award for contributing to the cause of cancer research to Dr. Salwa Boulos, Dept. of Radiology, Mammography, Ospedale Italiano Umberto I, Cairo, Egypt, for her unique breakthrough work in early diagnosis of Breast Cancer in women in Egypt.
The Awards will be in the sum of US$ 125,000 each with exception of the key-note speaker, Prof. Umberto Veronesi, who will receive US$ 150,000.
4. Acknowledgement and Thanks
All above 7 individuals were approved for an Award for the year 2005 and in the amounts documented.
A congratulatory letter to the Award Recipients will be sent by the Chairman of the Foundation, Prof. Itamar Rabinovich.
A letter of appreciation and thanks will also be sent by Prof. Rabinovich, in his capacity as Chairman of the Nomination Committee, to all Nominee-Candidates who were considered for an Award but were, regretfully and unfortunately, not included amongst the Award Recipients, principally due to budgetary and other internal procedural imperatives.
5. Future Plans
The Board of Trustees confirmed during its meeting that the 2005 Award Ceremony will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel on Thursday 1st December 2005. The Ceremony program and invitations will be sent out shortly.
Awards for the year 2006 will be examined as from July 2005. A decision on this subject will appear on the Foundation's website, together with the definition of the research project 2006, the procedure to be followed and the amount of awards.
6. A further bulletin on the deliberations and decisions of the Board of Trustees during its meeting of 28th May 2005, with regard to other matters, will appear on this site in due course.
April 2005
Panel Starts Evaluation Process of Research Projects for Breast Cancer Disease
The Chairman and Members of the Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research are proud to announce that the Panel, consisting of six prominent and internationally recognised personalities in their field, has already started the above evaluation process.
23 Nominee-Candidates have submitted their research projects which the Panellists are in the course of examining, at the moment.
A joint meeting of the Board of Trustees and the Panellists will be held in Zurich on 28th May 2005. During the meeting the Panel will submit its final decision as to the projects selected for award. The Board will then act to implement the Panel's decision and will inform the respective Award Recipients. A ceremony will be held in Tel-Aviv / Israel on 1st December 2005, during which the six selected researchers shall each receive the Jacqueline Seroussi Annual Research Award.
The Foundation wishes to express its appreciation and sincerest thanks to each member of the Panel, mentioned below, for his/her valuable contribution.
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Dr. Alberto Costa Surgeon, Director of the Senology Unit of the S. Maugeri Foundation, Director of the European School of Oncology, Milan/Italy |
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Dr. Judy E. Garber Geneticist, Associate Prof. of Medicine, Director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston (MA) USA |
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Prof. James Ingle Professor of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine, Rochester (MN) / USA |
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Prof. Yoel Kloog Dean of the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv / Israel |
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Prof. Hansjörg Senn Medical Oncologist, Director of the Center for Tumor Detection and Prevention, St. Gallen / Switzerland |
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Prof. Yehuda Skornick Head of the Department of Surgery, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel |
First Chairman of the Foundation
Passed away on 24.04.2005
1924 - 2005
With profound grief and great sorrow, Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Chairman, and his colleagues, Members of the Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation, announce the passing away on Sunday 24th April 2005 of former President Ezer Weizman who was the first Chairman of the Foundation from June 2001 to December 2004.
Edouard Seroussi, Settlor of Ajax Trust, and a long-time close friend of the Weizman family, joins us in expressing our deepest sympathy and sincerest condolences to Mrs. Reuma Weizman, her daughter Michal, her son-in-law Doobi Yoffe and all her grandchildren.
The Foundation is extremely proud and feels greatly honoured that the late President Weizman was its first Chairman.
December 2004
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The Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research held its annual meeting at Tel Aviv University on 1st December 2004.
The Board noted the decision of President Weizman to retire as Chairman of the Foundation's Board at the age of 80. It was unanimously decided to send, on behalf of the Foundation's Board and the Ajax Trust, an expression of great appreciation and gratitude to President Weizman for having chaired the Foundation since its inception and up to the Award Ceremony on 1st December 2004. The Board of Trustees and the Ajax Trust wish President Weizman a very happy and healthy retirement.
Upon proposal by the Ajax Trustees, Professor Itamar Rabinovich, the present Vice-Chairman, was unanimously voted Chairman of the Foundation, to succeed President Weizman as from 1st December 2004.
Upon proposal by the Ajax Trustees, Mr. Brian Frith was unanimously voted Vice-Chairman of the Foundation.
Upon proposal by the Ajax Trustees, Mrs. Sonya Abramovitz was unanimously voted Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation.
Approval of the Foundation’s budget for the year 2005 in the amount of US$ 1.000.000,-, most of which will be devoted to Awards to be given to upto six meritorious individuals and/or groups who have produced and will continue to produce important work in the field of breast cancer disease. The amount of each Award will vary between a minimum of US$ 125.000,- and a maximum of US$ 175.000,-, according to the merits of the projects selected. Prof. Dr. Aron Goldhirsch, Chief of Medical Oncology, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), Lugano / Switzerland, was unanimously named Coordinator for the year 2005.
Candidates will be proposed by the Nomination Committee to a Panel of experts in oncology who will make the final selection (for details see August 2004 Bulletin).
The final date for submission of Nominee-Candidates to the Panel is March 15, 2005.
The Panellists will evaluate the individuals and the proposals and advise the Board of Trustees of their decisions during their meeting in Zurich on 28th May 2005, so as to enable the Board to act upon their decisions in conformity with the Foundation's rules and regulations.
It was resolved that the research for 2006 will be in the field of "Haematological Malignancies". However, this will be examined further by the Board at its meeting in Zurich on 28th May 2005 in order to define clearly the research project, the procedure to be followed and the amount of awards.
The Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation's Annual Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday 1st December 2005 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Board Meeting was followed by a festive ceremony which was attended by the Award Recipients, the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman and the Members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation as well as some of the Panellists. Also present at the Ceremony was Mr. Edouard Seroussi, Settlor of the Ajax Trust, and a number of personalities from Israel and abroad. Each Award Recipient presented a brief and interesting narrative of her/his research project. The keynote speaker, Prof. Gustav von Schulthess of University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland, gave a fascinating insight into "Combining molecular and anatomic imaging: the Best of Two Worlds in Tumor Staging” .
August 2004
1. The Foundation's Board has charged the Nomination Committee it had appointed (6. below) to set up an independent Panel of up to 6 internationally renowned Professors, with an impeccable background, to examine research projects and select Award Recipients for the year 2005.
2. The Nomination Committee will propose to the said Panel a number of meritorious Nominee-Candidates of excellent standing in the field of Breast Cancer Disease. Those finally selected by the Panel will become the Foundation's Award Recipients for the year 2005.
3. Researchers, deemed to be of interest, shall be contacted by the Nomination Committee as from January 2005. The Researchers (Nominee-Candidates) in question will be informed of the research field approved for the year 2005, together with modalities, target dates, other requirements, as well as the respective amount of the Awards. Each Nominee-Candidate contacted shall be requested to submit a short description of:
- his/her standing in the field- his/her cumulative achievements
- his/her present research
- the potential impact of the specific research
- the future program and prospects,
in addition to his/her CV, list of publications, etc., enabling the Foundation to process and submit to the Panel a shortlist of the Candidates to be considered for the Awards.
4. It is emphasized that NO APPLICATIONS will be accepted or considered. Consequently, only those contacted by the Nomination Committee should respond or communicate with it, as prescribed.
5. The Panel may eventually, should the necessity arise, request the Nominee-Candidates to amplify in greater detail on his/her project.
6. The Members of the Nomination Committee appointed by the Board for the year 2005 are the following:
Prof. Itamar RABINOVICHPresident Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978 / Israel
e-mail: spiegelr@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Dr. Marvin L. CORMAN
Department of Surgery
SUNY, Stony Brook
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Stony Brook, NY 11794-8191
e-mail: mcorman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Prof. Dr. Aron GOLDHIRSCH
Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI)
Ospedale Civico
Via Tesserete 46
6900 Lugano / Switzerland
e-mail: agoldhirsch@sakk.ch
Prof. Dr. Walter WEDER
Direktor Thoraxchirurgie
UniversitätsSpital Zürich
Rämistrasse 100
8091 Zürich / Switzerland
e-mail: walter.weder@chi.usz.ch
7. Prof. Dr. Aron Goldhirsch, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), Lugano / Switzerland, has been proposed as Coordinator for the year 2005. The Board will ratify this nomination during its forthcoming Board Meeting.
8. Relevant details concerning the Panellists will appear on this site as soon as they are appointed. Panel members are free to communicate with each other, as they think fit, prior to the selection. The Panel is considered a single unit, which shall examine independently the projects of all Nominee-Candidates proposed by the Committee and shall decide with a majority of votes, irrevocably, on the selection of Award Recipients. Only in case of a tie shall the Board intervene by exercising its right to have a casting vote. As such, no Panellist shall be deprived from examining the dossier of each and every Nominee-Candidate.
9. Invitation and programme for the 2004 Ceremony (1st December) will be sent out by the end of the current month.
June 2004
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Awards Ceremony 2004
Due to unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances, the 2004 Awards Ceremony will now take place on Wednesday 1st December 2004 (instead of 2nd December 2004).
1. Meeting in Zürich, Switzerland
On 29th May 2004, a meeting of Panellists and Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research was held in Zürich, Switzerland. The purpose was to allow the Board Members to act upon the decision of the majority of the Panellists concerning the Foundation's Awards for the year 2004 in the field of oncologic diseases affecting the respiratory system.
1.1 Meeting of the Board of Trustees
Present at the Meeting:
- Professor Itamar Rabinovich (President, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research)
- Professor Marvin L Corman, M.D. (Professor of Surgery, Albert Einstein School of Medicine; Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, USA)
- Professor Aron Goldhirsch, M.D. (Director, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), Lugano, Switzerland)
- Professor Walter Weder, M.D. (Head, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland)
1.2 Separate Meeting of Advisory Panel Members prior to communication of decision
Present at the Meeting:
- Prof. Raphael Catane MD,
Professor & Chairman
Division of Oncology,
Sheba Medical Center,
Tel Hashomer, Israel - Prof. Erich W. Russi, MD
Professor of Pulmonary Medicine
Head, Pulmonary Division
University Hospital
Zurich, Switzerland - Prof. Nicholas Thatcher,
Chairman of Lung Cancer Group
Christie Hospital NHS Trust,
Medical Oncology Department,
Manchester, UK - Prof. Isaac P. Witz, Ph.D.,
Professor of Immunology
Tel Aviv University,
Ramat Aviv,
Tel Aviv, Israel
A total of 25 Nominee-Candidates for the 2004 Annual Awards of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research had been proposed to the above Advisory Panel by a Nomination Committee appointed by the Board and constituted by some of its members. The Panel submitted to the Board its findings, decision and selection of Award Recipients.
3. Deliberation - Implementation of Panel's Decision
The Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research noted the selection of Award Recipients as unanimously decided by the Panel. The Board unanimously agreed to act upon the final selection of the following Awardees:
| (1) | Prof. Gustav K. von Schulthess, M.D., Ph.D. Dept. Medical Radiology Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (2) | Prof. Frances A. Shepherd, MD, FRCPC Scott Taylor Chair in Lung Cancer Research Princess Margaret Hospital University of Toronto, Canada Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (3) | Prof. Waun Ki Hong, M.D. Head, Division of Cancer Medicine The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas, USA (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (4) | Prof. Adi F. Gazdar, M.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (5) | Prof. Mia Horowitz, Ph.D. Dept. Cell Research & Immunology Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (6) | Prof. Gidi Rechavi, M.D., Ph.D. Head, Sheba Cancer Research Center Head, Tel Aviv University Cancer Biology Research Center Tel Aviv, Israel (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
4. Acknowledgement and Thanks
All above six individuals were approved for an Award for the year 2004 and in the amounts documented.
A congratulatory letter to the Award Recipients has been sent by the Chairman of the Foundation, the Honorable Ezer Weizman.
A letter of appreciation and thanks has also been sent by Prof. Rabinovich, the Vice-Chairman of the Foundation and Chairman of the Nomination Committee, to all Nominee-Candidates who were considered for an Award but were, regretfully and unfortunately, not included amongst the Award Recipients, principally due to budgetary and other internal procedural imperatives.
5. Future Plans
The Board of Trustees confirmed during its meeting that the 2004 Award Ceremony will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel on 2nd December 2004. The Ceremony program and invitations will be sent out shortly.
Awards for the year 2005 will be examined as from July 2004. A decision on this subject will appear on the Foundation's website, together with the definition of the research project, the procedure to be followed and the amount of awards.
6. A further bulletin on the deliberations and decisions of the Board of Trustees during its meeting of 29th May 2004 with regard to other matters, will appear on this site in due course.
Panel Starts Evaluation Process of Research Projects for Oncologic Diseases Affecting the Respiratory System
The Chairman and Members of the Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research are proud to announce that the
Panel, consisting of six of the most prominent and internationally recognised personalities in their field, has now started the above evaluation process.
Twentyfive Nominee-Candidates have submitted their research projects which the Panellists are in the course of examining, at the moment.
A joint meeting of the Board of Trustees and the Panellists will be held in Zurich as from 28th May 2004. During the meeting the Panel will submit its
final decision as to the projects selected for award. The Board will then act to implement the Panel's decision and will inform the
respective Award Recipients. A ceremony will be held in Tel-Aviv / Israel on Thursday 2nd December 2004, during which the six selected researchers shall
each receive the Jacqueline Seroussi Annual Research Award.
The Foundation wishes to express its appreciation and sincerest thanks to each member of the Panel, mentioned below, for his valuable contribution.
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Prof. Paul A. Bunn Director of UCCC/Grohne/Stapp Chair in Cancer Research University of Colorado Cancer Center, St. Aurora,USA |
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Prof. Raphael Catane MD, Professor & Chairman Division of Oncology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer,Israel |
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Prof. Rafael Rosell, MD Scientific Director of Oncology Research Chief, Medical Oncology Service Institut Català d’Oncologia Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona/Badalona, Spain |
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Prof. Erich W. Russi, MD Head, Pulmonary Division University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Prof. Nicholas Thatcher, Chairman of Lung Cancer Group Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Medical Oncology Department, Manchester,UK |
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Prof. Isaac P. Witz, Ph.D., Professor of Immunology Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
The Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research held its annual meeting at Tel Aviv University on 4th December 2003. Decisions taken were:
- Approval of the Foundation's budget for the year 2004 in the amount of US$1.000.000,-, most of which will be devoted to Awards to be given to upto six meritorious individuals and/or groups who have produced and will continue to produce important work in the field of oncologic diseases affecting the respiratory system. The amount of each Award will vary between a minimum of US$ 125.000,- and a maximum of US$ 175.000,- according to the merits of the projects selected.
- Candidates will be proposed by the Nomination Committee to a Panel of experts in oncology who will make the final selection (for details see August 2003 Bulletin).
- The final date for submission of nominee-candidates to the Panel is March 15, 2004
- The Panellists will evaluate the individuals and the proposals and advise the Board of Trustees of their decisions during a meeting in Zurich on May 29, 2004, to enable the Board to act upon their decisions in conformity with the Foundation's rules and regulations.
- The Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation's Annual Awards Ceremony for the year 2004 will take place on 2nd December 2004 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
August 2003
1. The Foundation's Board has charged the Nomination Committee it had appointed (6. below), to set up an independent Panel of up to 6 internationally renowned Professors, with an impeccable background, to examine research projects and select Award Recipients for the year 2004.
2. The Nomination Committee will propose to the said Panel a number of meritorious Nominee-Candidates, of excellent standing in the field of Oncology and Respiratory Diseases. Those finally selected by the Panel will become the Foundation's Award Recipients for the year 2004.
3. Researchers, deemed to be of interest, shall be contacted by the Nomination Committee as from January 2004. The Researchers (Nominee-Candidates) in question, will be informed of the research field approved for the year 2004, together with modalities, target dates, other requirements, as well as the respective amount of the Awards. Each Nominee-Candidate contacted shall be requested to submit a short description of:
in addition to his/her CV, list of publications, etc., enabling the Foundation to process and submit to the Panel a shortlist of the Candidates to be considered for the Awards.
4. It is emphasized that NO APPLICATIONS will be accepted or considered. Consequently, only those contacted by the Nomination Committee should respond or communicate with it, as prescribed.
5. The Panel may eventually, should the necessity arise, request the Nominee-Candidates to amplify in greater detail on his/her project.
6. The Members of the Nomination Committee appointed by the Board for the year 2004 are the following:
Prof. Itamar RABINOVICH
President Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978 / Israel
e-mail: spiegelr@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Dr. Marvin L. CORMAN
Department of Surgery
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Oncology Building FB #417
269-11 76th Avenue
New Hyde Park, NY 11040 / USA
e-mail: mcorman@lij.edu
Prof. Dr. Aron GOLDHIRSCH
Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI)
Ospedale Civico
Via Tesserete 46
6900 Lugano / Switzerland
e-mail: agoldhirsch@sakk.ch
Prof. Dr. Walter WEDER
Direktor Thoraxchirurgie
UniversitätsSpital Zürich
Rämistrasse 100
8091 Zürich / Switzerland
e-mail: walter.weder@chi.usz.ch
7. Prof. Dr. Walter Weder, Direktor Thoraxchirurgie, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, has been proposed as Coordinator for the year 2004. The Board will ratify this nomination during its forthcoming Board Meeting.
8. Relevant details concerning the Panellists will appear on this site as soon as they are appointed. Panel members are free to communicate with each other, as they think fit, prior to the selection. The Panel is considered a single unit, which shall examine independently the projects of all Nominee-Candidates proposed by the Committee and shall decide with a majority of votes, irrevocably, on the selection of Award Recipients. Only in case of a tie shall the Board intervene by exercising its right to have a casting vote. As such, no Panellist shall be deprived from examining the dossier of each and every Nominee-Candidate.
9. Invitation and programme for the 2003 Ceremony (4th December) will be sent out by the end of the current month.
June 2003(Please also click on Prizes, Awards & Grants Programs)
1. Meeting in Zürich, Switzerland
On 21 June 2003, a meeting of Panellists and Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research was held in Zürich, Switzerland. The purpose was to allow the Board Members to act upon the decision of the majority of the Panellists concerning the Foundation's Awards for the year 2003 in the field of gastrointestinal-oncologic diseases affecting the digestive system.
1.1 Meeting of the Board of Trustees
Present at the Meeting:
- Professor Itamar Rabinovich (President, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research)
- Marvin L Corman, M.D. (Professor of Surgery, Albert Einstein School of Medicine; Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, USA)
- Professor Aron Goldhirsch (Director, European Institute of Oncology, Milano, Italy)
- Professor Walter Weder (Head of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland)
1.2 Separate Meeting of Advisory Panel Members prior to communication of decision
Present at the Meeting:
- Prof. Simon Bar-Meir, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
- Prof. David Cunningham, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Great Britain
- Prof. Heinz-Josef Lenz, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
- Prof. Gideon Rehavi, Chalm Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
- Prof. Werner Scheithauer, Klinik für Innere Medizin, I. Wein, Austria
- Prof. Cornelis van de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
2. Communication of Panellist's Decision and Selection of Nominee-Candidates for the Annual awards for the year 2003
A total of 32 nominee-candidates for the 2003 Annual Awards of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research had been proposed to the above Advisory Panel by a Nomination Committee appointed by the Board and constituted by some of its members. The Panel submitted to the Board its findings, decision and selection of Award Recipients.
3. Deliberation - Implementation of Panel's Decision
The Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research noted the selection of Award Recipients as unanimously decided by the Panel. The Board unanimously agreed to act upon the final selection of the following Awardees:
| (1) | Prof. Henry T Lynch M.D. Professor of Medicine and Chairman, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (2) | Prof. Moses Judah Folkman M.D. Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Surgical Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (3) | Prof. Gert Riethmüller M.D. Institut für Immunologie, Chairman of Cancer Center, University München, Germany (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (4) | Prof. Walter Bodmer Principal, Hertford College, Oxford; Head of Laboratory Cancer Research, UK; Cancer and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (5) | Prof. Isaac P. Witz Ph.D. Department of Cell Research and Immunoglogy, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
| (6) | Yehuda Chowers M.D. Senior Physician, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel (Awarded: US$ 150,000) |
4. Acknowledgement and Thanks
All above 6 individuals were approved for an Award for the year 2003 and in the amounts documented.
A congratulatory letter to the Award Recipients will be sent by the Chairman of the Foundation, the Honorable Ezer Weizman.
A letter of thanks will also be sent by Professor Rabinovich, Vice-Chairman of the Foundation and Chairman of the Nomination Committee, to all Award Recipients as well as Nominee-Candidates who were considered for an Award.
5. Future Plans
The Board of Trustees confirmed during its meeting that the 2003 Award Ceremony will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel on Thursday 4 December 2003. The Ceremony program and invitations will be sent out shortly.
Awards for the year 2004 will be examined as from July 2003. A decision on this subject will appear on the Foundation's website, together with the definition of the research project, the procedure to be followed and the amount of awards.
6. A further bulletin on the deliberations and decisions of the Board of Trustees during its meeting of 21 June 2003, with regard to other matters, will appear on this site in due course.
December 2002
(Please also click on Prizes, Awards & Grants Programs and Application Forms)
The Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research held a meeting at Tel Aviv University on December 5, 2002. Decisions taken were:
- Approval of a budget for the Foundation for 2003 in the amount of US$ 1 million, most of which will be devoted to Awards to be given to up to six meritorious individuals and/or groups who have produced and will continue to produce important work in the field of oncologic diseases affecting the digestive system. The amount of each Award will vary between a minimum of US$ 125.000 and a maximum of US$ 175.000 according to the merits of the projects selected.
- Candidates will be proposed by the Board of Trustees to a Panel of experts in oncology who will make the final selection.
- The final date for submission of nominees to the Panel is April 1, 2003.
- The Panellists will evaluate the individuals and the proposals and advise the Board of Trustees of their decisions in June 2003 to act upon in conformity with the Foundation's rules and regulations.
- The Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation's Annual Award Ceremony will take place on Thursday December 4, 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
November 2002
The Foundation is proud to announce that the Ceremony of the presentation of the Jacqueline Seroussi 2002 Awards for Cancer Research will take place on Thursday, December 5, 2002, at the Tel-Aviv University. The Ceremony will be attended by the Chairman and Members of the Board of Trustees, the Panellists and the six Award Recipients. The Keynote Speaker will be Prof. Isaac P. Witz of Tel-Aviv University (lecture: "The Challenge of the Immediate Future: Eradication of Metastasis").
As for this year's Award Recipients and their projects please click Prizes, Awards & Grants Programs as well as "News, Bulletin & Events" of April 2002 (item 3).
1. Awards 2002
The Board of Trustees of the Foundation, represented by Mr. Ezer Weizman, sent a letter of thanks and congratulations to the Awardees as previously published. The Awards Ceremony is expected to take place in Israel, early December 2002. During the said ceremony the Awards will be presented to each winner who will also deliver a brief presentation for audience members and in which he will describe his research and plans for using the Award.
2. Awards 2003
The Awards budget for the year 2003 is now being examined and is planned to cover research efforts which are directed to malignant tumours of the gastrointestinal system. Any further decision on this matter will appear on this website.
1. Meeting in Zurich, Switzerland
On April 19-21, 2002 a meeting of Panelists and Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research was held in Zurich / Switzerland. The purpose was to discuss and decide on the Awarding of Prizes in the field of Neuro-Oncology.
1.1 Meeting of the Board of Trustees
Present at the Meeting:
- Professor Itamar Rabinovich (President, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research)
- Professor Walter Weder (Head of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Professor Dieter K. Hossfeld (Director, Department of Oncology-Hematology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)
- Marvin L. Corman, M.D. (Professor of Surgery, Albert Einstein School of Medicine; Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, USA)
- Professor Aron Goldhirsch (Director, European Institute of Oncology, Milano, Italy)
Present at the Meeting:
- Professor Nava Zisapel, Ph.D. (Department of Neurobiochemistry, Tel-Aviv University; Head, The Adams Center for Brain Studies, Tel-Aviv, Israel)
- Prof. Dr. med. Guido Reifenberger (Institut für Neuropathologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany)
- Professor Dr. Nicolas de Tribolet (Chairman, Département de Neuro-chirurgie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland)
- Advisory Panel Member David G. T. Thomas, M.A., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S, (Professor of Neurological Surgery, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom) (Professor Thomas provided a rank order list of his nominees)
- Advisory Panel Member Professor Dr. Eldad Melamed (Neurology Department, Felssenstein Medical Research Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel)
A total of 17 applicants for the First Annual Awards of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research had been solicited and formed the basis for the Panel to review and to recommend.
3. Deliberation - Selection of Awardees
(Please also click on Prizes, Awards & Grants Programs) .
The meeting then went into executive session in order to permit the panel to meet separately and to reconvene when it had arrived at its recommendations.
After deliberation, the Panel and the Board of Trustees of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research have unanimously approved the selection of the following Awardees:
- Adi Kimchi from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel - for cutting edge, well-written research into brain metastases; the mechanisms for brain metastases and the development of inhibiting factors to stop metastases and invasion. (Awarded US$ 250.000)
- Dr. Yoel Kloog from Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel - working on many tumors and especially on a novel approach to glioma treatment by specific inhibition of ras signalling. (Awarded US$ 250.000)
- Vincent Collins, originally with the Karolinska Institute, now in Cambridge, United Kingdom. A well-recognized authority who continues to do important work on genetic and expression profiling of gliomas and their clinical relevance. He has had a major impact on modern neuropathology. (Awarded US$ 250.000)
- Dr. Eric Holland, from Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, New York, U.S.A. He was formerly a clinician neurosurgeon who is now devoted to research. His area of concentration is on the use of retroviral vectors for the development of animal brain tumor models. (Awarded US$ 200.000)
- Dr. Michael Weller, from the Department of Neurology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. For novel approaches to molecular therapy of gliomas by targeting and activating the p53 controlled death-signalling pathway. (Awarded US$ 150.000)
- Dr. Monika Hegi, from the Laboratory of Tumor Biology and Genetics, Lausanne, Switzerland. For profiling of human gliomas for tumor classification by gene expression, and identification of predictive factors. (Awarded US$ 150.000)
All six individuals were approved for an Award for the year 2002 and in the amount documented.
A congratulatory letter to the Award Recipients will be sent by the Chairman of the Foundation, the Honorable Ezer Weizman.
A letter of thanks will also be sent by Professor Rabinovich, Vice-Chairman of the Foundation and Chairman of the Nomination Committee, to all who were considered for an Award.
5. Future Plans
The activities of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research and its awards for the year 2003 will be examined as from 1st July 2002. On that date the Board of Trustees will also decide on the date and location for the ceremony of the distribution of the six Awards already approved for the year 2002.
In accordance with the Resolution of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees dated August 2001, the Committee has proposed candidates for this year’s Annual Awards to the Panel which was duly constituted.
In conformity with the Board Resolution no further candidates will be proposed after the 1st of March 2002.
The Panel which has started investigating the candidacies submitted is consisting of 5 experts, i.e.:
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Eldad MELAMED MD
Professor of Neuroscience, Petah-Tikva/Israel -
Dr. Guido REIFENBERGER
Professor of Neuro-Pathology, Düsseldorf/Germany -
David G.T. THOMAS MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery, London/Great Britain -
Nicolas de TRIBOLET MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Geneva/Switzerland, -
Nava ZISAPEL MD
Professor of Neurochemistry, Tel-Aviv/Israel
The Committee selected by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation – Prof. Dr. Dieter K. Hossfeld, Prof. Itamar Rabinovich and Prof. Dr. Walter Weder – has submitted names of the panel candidates. The Board has appointed, as suggested by the Committee, six internationally renowned Professors to become members of the panel, for a period of one year as from October 2001.
For further information and details please click:
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Prizes, Awards & Grants Programs of August 2001
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News Bulletin & Events
(item 2. c) - Selection of Winners)
Resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation dated August 2001
Hereunder extracts of text of the written Resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation dated August 2001:
“The undersigned, constituting all of the trustees of The Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research, an Israeli foundation (the “Foundation”), hereby adopt the following resolutions by written consent in accordance with Section 9.4 of the Foundation’s Deed of Trust.
1. Annual Awards Ceremony
RESOLVED, The first ceremony of granting the annual awards will be held on July 3, 2002. The selection of the group winners will be conducted according to a timetable leading to that date.
2. Schedule for Selection of Winners
RESOLVED, The selection of winners of the annual awards will consist of three stages, as follows:
a) The Board of Trustees will select a committee of three trustees. Professor Weder, Professor Hossfeld and Professor Rabinovich will participate in the committee (hereinafter: the “Committee”).
b) The Committee will submit to the Board of Trustees a number of candidates for the panel, in accordance with section 5 of the Deed of Trust. The Board will then choose 6 panellists – 3 International and 3 Israeli. The selection of the panellists will be completed not later than October 1, 2001.
c) The Committee will thereafter propose for the awards 12 individuals and/or teams of researchers (4 Israeli and 8 International), whose efforts are directed to the research of malignant tumours of the neurological system. The list of candidates, together with relevant background material, CVs, list of publications, etc., will be transmitted to the panel not later than March 1, 2002. The description of research projects, together with the CVs, will be submitted to the panel not later than March 1, 2002. The selection of winners will be made not later than May 1, 2002.
3. The Contract Between the Foundation and the Candidates
RESOLVED, The candidate individuals and/or groups will have to accept and sign the Foundation’s contract, which will mainly require:
a) Stipulations of the candidates’ past/present and ongoing research efforts and accomplishments.
b) The candidates accept that they are, and shall at all times remain, committed to acknowledge that any and all funds released to them by the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research are to honour and memorialise Jacqueline Seroussi. Such acknowledgement shall likewise apply to any and all results that may be obtained, directly or indirectly, fully or partially, through the Foundation’s contribution(s).
c) Each award winner will give a brief summary of the project, not exceeding 10 minutes, during the ceremony.
4. Selection of winners
a) RESOLVED, The panellists will choose the winners after reviewing all candidates. Two Israelis, and a minimum of 2 or a maximum of 3 International (including possibly Israeli candidates) will be chosen within the time limit mentioned in section 2(c) above.
b) RESOLVED, If the panellists do not reach a decision regarding the winners or any of them (a tie) then the Board will have a casting vote as a Board.
c) RESOLVED, The winners will be notified by the Foundation not later than May 7, 2002.
d) RESOLVED, The awards will be given at a festive ceremony to be held in Israel on July 3, 2002. The Committee will recommend to the Board 3 prominent scientists or relevant public figures, one of whom will be invited to be keynote speaker during the ceremony.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned trustees have hereunto set their hands.
Hon. Ezer Weizman, Chairman – Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Vice-Chairman – Prof. Dr. Marvin L. Corman – Prof. Dr. Aron Goldhirsch – Prof. Dr. Dieter K. Hossfeld– Prof. Dr. Walter Weder“.
$ 1.25 million in prizes to researchers in the field of brain cancer to be awarded by The Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research which has been set up in Israel
The Ajax Trust, founder of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research, announced the donation at the first meeting of the Board of Trustees held this week.
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| On the left: President Ezer Weizman, Chairman of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research. On the right: Mr. Edouard Seroussi, Settlor of the Ajax Trust. |
The Ajax Trust, founder of the Jacqueline Seroussi Memorial Foundation for Cancer Research, announced a first donation of $ 1.45 million for the promotion of cancer research, at the first meeting of its Board of Trustees.
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| From left to right: Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Prof. de Heer, President Ezer Weizman, Mr. Edouard Seroussi |
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| From left to right: Prof. Weder, Prof. Rabinovich, President Ezer Weizman. |
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| From left to right: Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Prof. Hossfeld, President Weizman, Mr. Edouard Seroussi |
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| On the left: Mr. Edouard Seroussi. On the right: Ms. Tanya Moore, advocate, representative of WJB CHILTERN TRUSTCOMPANY Ltd., Trustees of the AJAX TRUST |
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| Chairman, members of the Board, legal counsel and advisors. |