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Portraying Weizmann Institute Top Official, Board of Governors Member: Yoram Groner - One Man, Two Faces
According to the "Board of Governors and Institute Officers of the Weizmann Institute of Science" page, the Chair of the Board of Governors is Mandy Moross, UK. Deputy Chairs are H. Thomas Beck, Canada, Lester Crown, U.S.A., Robert J. Drake, The Netherlands, Dame Vivien Duffield, Switzerland, Prof. Yoram Groner, Israel, and S. Donald Sussman, USA.
Thus, one of the Deputy Chairs is an Institutional Professor, Dr. Yoram Groner. Beyond his research described at the Molecular Genetics web page, he is also described as follows.
Quoting Administering the Institute: The Leadership Team page devoted to Professor Yoram Groner:
"Since Prof. Yoram Groner joined the Weizmann Institute in 1975, he has held a number of positions. He headed the Institute's Biological Services (1985-1988), the Virology Department, later renamed Molecular Genetics and Virology (1987-1992), and the Harry Levine Center of Applied Research (1988-1992). In 1993 he was appointed Institute Vice President, and later Deputy President. He also heads the Kekst Family Center for Medical Genetics, and has received numerous awards for his research into the genetic and molecular basis of such disorders as Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's. He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization Council and of the Israeli National Council for Research and Development. Prof. Groner holds the Dr. Barnet Berris Chair of Cancer Research."
Excellent man-in-science story, isn't it? Well. One would say so, congratulating Weizmann Institute for a great leader. "The most disgusted man, I ever knew", argues Dr. Groner peer from the Institute (*).
He is also known for accepting gift authorship; for writing recommendation letter (addressed to a Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. David Baltimore) to a fellow scientist (of Biological Chemistry Prof. David Wallach group) who he never worked with; for submission of essentially the same project and receiving funding for it from two separate funding authorities (two funded proposals on a strain of transgenic mice and Alzheimer's disease, by Israel Science Foundation, and Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, IL); and for unjust kicking his junior colleague out of Alzheimer's Association grant application opportunity, assisted by Boaz Avron, presently acting Weizmann's Head of Directorate for Research and Academic Affairs, and Academic Secretary... You read it right. "A c a d e m i c S e c r e t a r y". Not a "Secretary for Weizmann Institute Corruption". Not sure?
Well, we are not sure either about both of them (MyRehovot, "Criminality or Irregularity? Israel State Comptroller Finds Weizmann Institute Fools Funding Bodies", 4 Feb 2007) . But The Weizmann Institute stance is different. Dr. Groner is ethical enough to be Weizmann leader, Board of Governors member, Deputy Chair...
Who to believe? You decide...
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*) MyRehovot used here more polite characteristics of Professor Groner, then the one actually heard from his Weizmann Institute colleague.
Thus, one of the Deputy Chairs is an Institutional Professor, Dr. Yoram Groner. Beyond his research described at the Molecular Genetics web page, he is also described as follows.
Quoting Administering the Institute: The Leadership Team page devoted to Professor Yoram Groner:
"Since Prof. Yoram Groner joined the Weizmann Institute in 1975, he has held a number of positions. He headed the Institute's Biological Services (1985-1988), the Virology Department, later renamed Molecular Genetics and Virology (1987-1992), and the Harry Levine Center of Applied Research (1988-1992). In 1993 he was appointed Institute Vice President, and later Deputy President. He also heads the Kekst Family Center for Medical Genetics, and has received numerous awards for his research into the genetic and molecular basis of such disorders as Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's. He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization Council and of the Israeli National Council for Research and Development. Prof. Groner holds the Dr. Barnet Berris Chair of Cancer Research."
Excellent man-in-science story, isn't it? Well. One would say so, congratulating Weizmann Institute for a great leader. "The most disgusted man, I ever knew", argues Dr. Groner peer from the Institute (*).
He is also known for accepting gift authorship; for writing recommendation letter (addressed to a Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. David Baltimore) to a fellow scientist (of Biological Chemistry Prof. David Wallach group) who he never worked with; for submission of essentially the same project and receiving funding for it from two separate funding authorities (two funded proposals on a strain of transgenic mice and Alzheimer's disease, by Israel Science Foundation, and Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, IL); and for unjust kicking his junior colleague out of Alzheimer's Association grant application opportunity, assisted by Boaz Avron, presently acting Weizmann's Head of Directorate for Research and Academic Affairs, and Academic Secretary... You read it right. "A c a d e m i c S e c r e t a r y". Not a "Secretary for Weizmann Institute Corruption". Not sure?
Well, we are not sure either about both of them (MyRehovot, "Criminality or Irregularity? Israel State Comptroller Finds Weizmann Institute Fools Funding Bodies", 4 Feb 2007) . But The Weizmann Institute stance is different. Dr. Groner is ethical enough to be Weizmann leader, Board of Governors member, Deputy Chair...
Who to believe? You decide...
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*) MyRehovot used here more polite characteristics of Professor Groner, then the one actually heard from his Weizmann Institute colleague.
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