Sheba Medical Center Is Proud To Announce The Opening Of Its New Neuroscience Center

The human mind is still uncharted territory despite the vast amount of knowledge that has already been amassed what with the sophisticated imaging devices that have been developed in recent years, the huge research budgets allocated to the field and all the attention it has received.

Last week, an interdisciplinary center for brain research was opened at the Sheba Medical Center. The opening of the Center, under the direction of Professor Anat Biegon, was made possible through the contribution of the Sagol Family and the Center has been named "The Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center."

The aim of the Center is to concentrate, initiate and coordinate all the basic and clinical research under one roof including a scientific committee consisting of the experts in this field in Israel and in the world.
 
The Center will be a focal point for the research activities of the hospital's neurology, neurosurgery, neuro-radiology and psychiatry departments.
The Center will assist researchers in gaining access to international research grants, encourage the addition of new researchers and will work towards bringing these disciplines close together, which are all related to brain research.

Research activities will benefit from the existing broad infrastructure of the Medical Center, the biggest in the Middle East.
The Center's doctors and researchers cooperate with the other departments and research institutes in the hospital, with researchers and students at Tel-Aviv and Bar-Ilan Universities, the Weizmann Institute and similar Centers abroad.

Professor Zeev Rotstein, Director of the General Hospital and one of the initiators in founding the Center explains: "Our initiative stems from a dual world view: 
A. We have to link the clinical service of the hospital to a research system under one roof with defined goals.
B. We have to draw the different disciplines which are close to one another, from a historical perspective have developed separately but can be united conceptually, closer to one another.
 

Our uniqueness is that we have the ability to create a Center where clinicians and researchers can work together. World attention today is focused on the brain. A great deal of money and tremendous effort are invested in this endeavor. This Center places Sheba Medical Center on the world map and establishes it at the forefront of research and development."