The Smith-Elkes Laboratory, located in the Life Sciences building of the Hebrew University, serves as a national and international laboratory core facility.  The laboratory provides space and facilities for state-of-the-art research aimed at the treatment of a vast spectrum of diseases.

Your obligations to the laboratory are simple. – just acknowledge in all publications that, "this research was supported by the Charles E. Smith Family and Prof. Joel Elkes Laboratory for Collaborative Research in Psychobiology."

National core facility for advanced human brain mapping:

In 2007 NIPI awarded  a grant to establish Israel's first national core facility for advance brain imaging to the Functional Brain Center at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv.  The facility enables scientists from all over Israel and abroad to utilize the latest state-of-the-art equipment in non-invasive exploration of the human brain. The grant will broaden the center's brain mapping capabilities to include EEG in addition to the existing MRI-- a central player in the brain-imaging revolution of the last decade.

Dr Talma Hendler
Functional Human Brain Mapping Unit
http://www.braingenie.org/facilities/facilities.html
talma@tasmc.health.gov.il

NIPI sees the creation of new laboratories and clinical research centers as a crucial step in the development of psychobiological research in Israel, as well as in the retention of Israeli researchers. Additional facilities would enable access to sophisticated technologies vital to scientists' understanding of psychobiology as well as help translate basic scientific discoveries into clinical and pharmacological advances.

Sizeable budgets for equipment and maintenance are required, as technological obsolescence occurs rapidly in areas such as brain imaging, and high-resolution microscopy. NIPI is looking for the crucial support to add additional facilities to enable Israeli researchers to remain at the frontier of biopsychological investigation.