Israeli Researchers Make Top 50

Professor Beka Solomon was honored for her novel therapeutic approach for treating Alzheimer’s disease through the use of an experimental nasal spray, which directs harmless bacterial viruses to the brain where they lock onto and destroy plaques associated with Alzheimer’s. Professors Eshel Ben-Jacob and Dr. Itay Baruchi were chosen for their development of a memory and information-processing chip made of living neurons. The biochip is the first successful attempt to replicate human memory at the most basic level.