Prof. Leo Sachs, professor of biology and head of the Department of Genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovot, has been awarded the 1986 Royal Society Welcome Foundation Prize, given by the London-based Royal Society every two years for original contributions to medical science.
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