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- ↑ About the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation.
- ↑ List of BSF Grantees who received Nobel and other awards.
- ↑ Examples of a few of the many BSF grantee prizewinners are:
- the 2006 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award to Elizabeth Blackburn (BSF grantee), Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak for the prediction and discovery of telomerase, The Lasker Foundation;
- the 2004 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine winners Richard Axel (BSF grantee) and Linda B. Buck; and 2004 Nobel prize in Chemistry to Aaron Ciechanover (BSF grantee), All Nobel Prize Laureates;
- the 2008 Wolf Foundation prize in medicine to Aaron Razin (BSF grantee) and Howard Cedar, Wolf Foundation Prizes in Medicine; Archived February 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine and the 2005 Wolf Foundation prize in mathematics to Gregory A. Margulis (BSF grantee) and Sergei Novikov, Wolf Foundation Prizes in Mathematics.
