Research Groups | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

Hillel Furstenberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Yuri Kifer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Benjamin Weiss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Signal Transduction in Health and Disease

[RG #66] Signal Transduction in Health and Disease

February - May 1997

Organizer:

Alex Levitzki (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Chirality of Drugs and Chiral Recognition

[RG #65] Chirality of Drugs and Chiral Recognition

November 1995 - August 1996

Organizer:

Israel Agranat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The notion of chirality has emerged as a major theme in drug design and discovery. Many of the new chiral drugs are being developed as single enantiomers. Chiral recognition is one of the most significant topics of contemporary stereochemical studies and is an essential component of pharmacological events.

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Visual Culture and Modern Jewish Society

[RG #64] Visual Culture and Modern Jewish Society

February - August 1996

Organizers:

Richard Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Ezra Mendelsohn (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

This Research Group is composed of scholars in a number of disciplines: art history, Jewish history, theatre, sociology and anthropology. All are interested in the ways in which the study of modern Jewish society can be advanced through a study of visual images, ranging from high art to caricatures, exhibitions in museums and world fairs and the stage. Another principle concern in to examine how certain images can be better understood by placing them in their proper Jewish context.

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[RG #56] Urbanism in Palestine and the East in the Roman and Byzantine Periods

[RG #55] Computer Simulation Methods in Chemical Physics

January 1 - June 30, 1993

[RG #54] Interreligious Polemics

[RG #53] Jewish History in the Mishna and Talmud Period

[RG #59] Aspects of Rational Behavior in Philosophy, Economics and Psychology

March 1 - August 31, 1994

[RG #58] The Criminal Justice System

October 1993 - August 1994

[RG #57] East European Jewry between Tradition and Renewal

September 1993 - August 1994

[RG #62] Hebrew Linguistic Literature & Theory

September 1, 1994 - August 31, 1995

[RG #61] Saadia Gaon: Continuity and Change among the Jews of Islamic Lands

February - July 1995

[RG #60] Leibniz the Polemicist

October 1, 1994 - September 30, 1995

[RG #68] The Beginnings of Jewish Prayer

October 1996 - September 1997

[RG #67] Randomness and Dynamical Systems

September 1996 - August 1997