TAU's Dr. Yuval Nir receives prestigious Adelis Prize

A prize of $100,000 will go to groundbreaking sleep research

22 June 2016
From left: Adelis Foundation representative Rébecca Boukhris, Dr. Yuval Nir and Adelis Foundation President Albert Deloro

The Adelis Foundation awards a sum of $100,000 annually for outstanding work in brain studies by an Israeli researcher. This year, a panel of judges from among Israel's most distinguished professors chose Dr. Yuval Nir, of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience, for his advances in sleep research. Twenty-nine research proposals in total were submitted to the competition. 

 

Increasing cooperation and synergy in research

Dr. Amos D. Korczyn, professor emeritus of Tel Aviv University, explained the judging panel’s considerations: "Among the important points that impressed the team on the judging committee for the award was that Yuval works on two planes in parallel. He examines the brain’s functioning in lower mammals and in people. Whereas the animal study seeks answers about activity relating to normal sleep, the human study focuses on sleep disorders.

 

"Both insomnia and hypersomnia, but also — and above all else — what happens during dreams and nightmares are phenomena almost entirely limited to human beings. Only by integrating data on the physiology of sleep in animals and in humans can deep understanding of sleep disturbances in people be achieved. Yuval’s work integrates these two areas, and the combination is very promising.

 

"Dr. Nir has successfully created links, increasing cooperation and synergy in research, with scientists in related fields, and he supervises a large number of research students. In this way he contributes not only to solving scientific problems, but also to educating generation of researchers. His work has won recognition and admiration. He has published his research results in leading journals in the field and received research grants."

 

The Adelis Foundation was established by the late Mr. André Cohen Deloro to support academic excellence in Israel in general and in areas of medicine and science and particular. The Adelis Award for Brain Research was aunched in 2005.

 

 

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