Announcing the 2026 Laureates of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel: Sergey N. Semenov, Uri Ben-David, and Paz Beniamini will each be awarded US$100,000 for their groundbreaking scientific research taking place in Israel (IMAGE)

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Announcing the 2026 Laureates of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel: Sergey N. Semenov, Uri Ben-David, and Paz Beniamini will each be awarded US$100,000 for their groundbreaking scientific research taking place in Israel

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The Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and The New York Academy of Sciences announced today the Laureates of the prestigious 2026 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel.  Each Laureate will receive US$100,000 in prize money. The three 2026 Laureates are:

 

Chemical Sciences Laureate

Sergey N. Semenov, PhD, a chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science

 

Life Sciences Laureate

Uri Ben-David, PhD, a cancer biologist at Tel Aviv University

 

Physical Sciences & Engineering Laureate

Paz Beniamini, PhD, an astrophysicist at the Open University of Israel

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Blavatnik Awards / The New York Academy of Sciences

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