MIT and BGU Announce Five Jointly Funded Projects
MIT and BGU Announce Five Jointly Funded Projects
February 11, 2015
Desert & Water Research, Medical Research
Algemeiner.com — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have approved five jointly funded projects.
BGU Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences Prof. Joseph Kost, BGU Rector Prof. Zvi HaCohen, MIT-Israel Faculty Director Prof. Christine Ortiz signed the first MIT-Israel BGU Seed Fund on May 25, 2014.
The projects are part of a program established by the universities last spring during a trade mission to Israel led by former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.
The MIT-BGU Seed Fund helps to promote and support early-stage collaborations between faculty and research scientists of the two schools. It is the first seed funding initiative that MIT has launched in Israel.
The initial five collaborative projects between the two schools focus on environmental and medical research, such as research on agriculture and water use as well as treatments for spinal cord injuries.
“We’re very excited about these early stage BGU-MIT collaborations that focus on our strengths in medical and environmental research,” says Doron Krakow, executive vice president of American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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