The conference was a resounding success with over 400 participants from 30 different
countries.
We were extremely fortunate to have the meeting opened by Ezer Weizman,
President of the State of Israel, and Prof. Ephraim Katchalsky-Katzir,
fourth President of the State of Israel. The plenary lectures by
Prof. Leroy Hood and Prof. Tom Blundell were followed by four days of talks
on a variety topics, many at the cutting-edge of research.
We are very grateful to all the sponsors of this meeting:
Abbott Labs, BioMedNet, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Compugen Ltd., Digital Equipment Corp, DKFZ, Glaxo Wellcome, Hoechst Shering AgrEvo, Hoffmann-LaRoche Ltd., Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, Merck KGaA, NIH, NIST, NSF, Nonius B.V., Sandoz Pharma Ltd., Silicon Graphics, SUN, Synergix Ltd., TEVA Pharmaceutical Ind. Ltd., U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense Weizmann Institute of Science, Zeneca Agrochemicals