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Opinion | The man who understood the north of the study Israel today

2022-01-05T08:19:55.281Z


The late Sheldon and Miriam realized that wisdom is not found in a single researcher or in one institution, and put together the best researchers and doctors, so that in brainstorming they will reach an optimal solution.


Research, in any field, needs a physical abode, but mostly a lot of funding.

The Tabernacle is easily accessible from philanthropic sources.

Buildings are easy to see, construction plans have schedules, commemorative signs are easy to touch, and movies are easy to cut out.

All of these make the Tabernacle an easy reality to grasp.

But research is much more elusive.

He is very professional and difficult to explain.

It lasts for many years, and in most cases does not achieve significant results.

And even when it comes to a significant result, in some studies it expands knowledge and is not necessarily applicable, and the public wonders why its money is invested, for example, in understanding the universe or creating the initial life.

And since the achievement is feasible - for example, drug development - the process takes many more years and costs a lot of money (we should not learn from the speed of success in developing the important vaccines against corona, these are based on scientific knowledge accumulated from the 50s).

All of these factors are not in the relatively short timelines, certainly not of politicians, but neither of most philanthropists.

The late Sheldon Adelson, who is currently one year old at the time of his death, and will be separated for a long time from his wife Dr. Miriam Adelson, were (and still are) philanthropists of a completely different breed.

Miriam, who is a physician by training and an expert in drug addiction, "dragged" Sheldon into the world of medical research, and the two left a special mark on him.

They have invested in research housing, but at the same time have established a fund that supports worldwide medical research, a unique fund that is unmatched among the many other funds, and its uniqueness ensures its success.

I will not elaborate on the quality of the researchers and their choice of tweezers. The foundation, first and foremost, concentrates on a limited number of diseases, and the focus is undoubtedly one of the fathers of success in science. The late Sheldon and Miriam realized that wisdom is not found in a single researcher or in one institution, and sat around the table the best researchers and doctors from the best universities, so that in brainstorming they reach an optimal solution. They understood that drug production is the last step, All of it, from the basic research - understanding the mechanism - to its implementation, and took care to represent a wide range of researchers and doctors who will examine the same problem from different angles.

The Adelsons also realized that contemporary research requires extremely expensive equipment for analyzing gene and protein sequences, combined with computational analytical platforms, and at the same time set up these interdisciplinary units, providing the analyzes needed by the entire research community in the program.

They created another unique element and entrusted the judging of the proposals to the members of the group so that each researcher appreciated the work of the other researchers.

This trust has the meaning of responsibility on the part of researchers for the quality of the foundation and its leadership, a trust that politicians, for example, fail to obtain from the public on almost every issue.

The foundation did not disappoint its founders and successors, and promoted important research into cancer and degenerative brain diseases.

It will continue to be a living and burning flame, illuminating its surroundings for many years to come in memory of a man who showed understanding in the norths of research, more perhaps than many of us, the researchers.

Disclosure: The author is part of a group of international and Israeli researchers who receive a competitive research grant from the Adelson Foundation for Medical Research

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Source: israelhayom

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