— The Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) is this year awarding 31 young Israeli scientists and cancer researchers with fellowships totaling more than $315,000, Dr. Bracha Rager, a member of the ICRF’s scientific advisory board, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Thirty fellowships are for $10,000 each and one is for $15,000.
This is a record sum for the ICRF, an American-Canadian organization which was established here in 1977 by prominent scientists and cancer experts who, Rager said, “believe in the scientific potential of Israel and its ability to contribute to the worldwide search for cancer cure.”
The ICRF, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Miller, director of the Strang Clinic-Preventive Medicine Institute in Manhattan, has given fellowships to 86 Israeli researchers, including the 31 this year, amounting to $795,000, Rager said. She said the fellowships are designed for Israeli scientists and researchers who reside and work in Israel.
According to Rager, who is presently a visiting scientist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, and is the wife of Yitzhak Rager, president of the Israel Bond Organization, the ICRF is also assisting Israeli scientists who return to work and research in Israel after studying or working in the United States and in other countries.
This year, seven of the fellowships were given to Israeli scientists who returned to Israel after working abroad for various periods of time, she said. The fellowships will be officially awarded at a special ceremony in June at the Pierre Hotel here.
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