The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), an international organization dedicated to promoting international collaboration in basic research, has awarded research grants to two BGU researchers.
Dr. Benyamin Rosental from BGU's French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) will receive a Young Investigators Grant for a total of $750,000 ($250,000 per year for three years) together with his partner, Dr. Bo Wang from the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University in the US, for their project "Paradoxical responses of immune systems at the tipping point".
Dr. Rosental's research focuses on comparing inverse reactions by immune systems at critical points, was graded first from nine projects that received grants. 160 projects were presented, 23 reached the next round and ultimately 9 were awarded grants.
