The Jerusalem Post
2009-10-31
Oct 5, 2006 — Israel is a powerhouse in human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, with its researchers in second place after the US in absolute (not per capita) numbers of publications in scientific journals up to the end of 2005 - way ahead of the UK, Korea, China, Singapore, Australia, Sweden and Canada.
The ranking was determined by German and American researchers and published in an article in the October issue of the journal Stem Cells.
In addition, four of the best hESC papers ever published in peer-reviewed journals - according to a ranking by the journal - were written by Israelis: Prof. Benjamin Reubinoff of the Hadassah University Medical Center (two papers, No. 2 and No. 7); Prof. Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Rambam Medical Center (No. 8) and Dr. Shulamit Levenberg of the Technion (No. 11).