With annual themes including as “Frontiers in Biomedical Research,” “The Future of Health: From Molecules to Machines,” and “Advances in Cardiovascular, Cancer, and Neurobiology Research,” the symposiums feature speakers, presentations, working groups and individual laboratory meetings.
Often, they facilitate connections that lead to the following year’s joint applications for research.
The partnership also has a growing record of success with fellowships, as individuals from one institution spend blocks of time with colleagues and teams at partner universities. We have supported the exchange of 19 early-career researchers between U-M and either Technion or Weizmann.