A biomedical engineer and philanthropist agreed to establish a research institute in Israel. The life sciences/biomedical institute to be established by Alfred Mann at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa will be the first of 12 institutes Mann plans to set up outside the United States.
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