Uruguayan President launches postdoctoral fellowship at Weizmann

On January 22, the President of Uruguay, Dr. Tabaré Vázquez, and the President of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Daniel Zajfman, participated in an event to launch a fellowship for Uruguayan postdoctoral fellows at the Weizmann Institute and to celebrate a growing partnership between that country and the Weizmann Institute in science and education.

Presidents of the Latin American Committee’s Friends Associations in Brazil and Argentina as well as officials from Uruguay and Israel, and other Latin American friends were in attendance.

President Vázquez , who was a student at the Weizmann Institute, said, “I dream that young Uruguayan scientists can study in Israel, attend the Weizmann Institute, and enrich themselves from a scientific and human perspective and bring back the knowledge they have acquired to enhance and enrich the life of all Uruguayans."

"Science can contribute to that end, and indeed the Weizmann Institute can contribute, and we now have an important door that has been opened for Uruguayan scholars to go to Israel and for Israelis to come to us."

Prof. Zajfman discussed the scientific research conducted at the Institute and the strengthening of the Institute's relationships with several Latin American countries. “Science is not done in a vacuum, in solitude,” but rather is “a universal language, which is why cooperation is so important,” he said.