Dr. Natalie Elia of the Department of Life Sciences is to be awarded the prestigious Krill Prize from the Wolf Foundation for excellence in scientific research. The prize totaling $10,000 will be presented at a ceremony to be held in May.
Elia has won a number of prestigious grants recently including an ERC starting grant and an ISF grant.
Initiated in 2005 by the Krill family, six prizes of $10,000 each are awarded annually in life sciences, medicine, agriculture, engineering and exact sciences. Selection is made by the Wolf Foundation Scholarships Committee on the basis of an untenured candidate's excellence and the importance of his or her research field.
The Wolf Foundation was established in Israel in 1975 by inventor, diplomat and philanthropist Dr. Ricardo Wolf, "to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind."
