Around Campus Israeli scientists at the Keck Center Archived article from Mar 20, 2006

Credit: Joseph Blumberg Martin Grumet, (seated left) director of Rutgers’ W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, and Wise Young, (standing left) the center’s founding director, hosted Israeli scientists Renana Patoka (seated) and Giora Ram for eight weeks under a Technology Excellence Fellowship program, funded by the United States-Israel Science and Technology Foundation. Patoka collaborated with Keck researchers on experimental spinal cord injury therapy that employs macrophages, specialized cells that work to repair damaged tissues. Ram worked with Keck Center staff on adapting and improving a gait analysis system, used to assess locomotive changes in lab animals undergoing spinal cord injury analysis and therapies. Patoka and Ram are now sharing the benefits of their Rutgers experience back in Israel. The foundation, a nongovernmental organization established by President Bill Clinton and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, funded the fellowship program and worked with the state’s New Jersey-Israel Commission, part of the state’s Commerce, Economic Growth and Tourism Commission, on the selection of participants. The scientists arrived at Rutgers Jan. 18 and departed March 10.

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