{"id":94187,"date":"2019-07-28T09:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/an-israeli-scientist-paves-the-way-to-alzheimers-cure-one-algorithm-at-a-time"},"modified":"2019-07-28T09:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T16:02:49","slug":"an-israeli-scientist-paves-the-way-to-alzheimers-cure-one-algorithm-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/an-israeli-scientist-paves-the-way-to-alzheimers-cure-one-algorithm-at-a-time","title":{"rendered":"An Israeli Scientist Paves the Way to Alzheimer\u2019s Cure, One Algorithm at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-israeli-scientist-paves-the-way-to-alzheimers-cure-one-algorithm-at-a-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at work in laboratory. Photo: Public domain via Wikicommons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctech\/articles\/0,7340,L-3766658,00.html\"><em>CTech<\/em><\/a> \u2013 When chemistry Nobel laureate Michael Levitt met his wife two years ago, he didn\u2019t know it would lead to a wonderful friendship with a young Israeli scientist. When Israeli scientist Shahar Barbash decided to found a startup with the aim of cutting down the time needed to develop new medicine, he didn\u2019t know that a friend\u2019s wedding would help him score a meeting with a man many want to meet but few do. But Levitt\u2019s wife is an old friend of Barbash\u2019s parents, and the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<p>One of the joys of being an old scientist is to encourage extraordinary young ones, Levitt, an American-British-Israeli biophysicist and a professor at Stanford University since 1987, said in a recent interview with <em>Calcalist<\/em>. He might have met Barbash because his wife knew his family, but that is not enough to make him go into business with someone, Levitt said. \u201cI got on board because his vision excited me, even though I thought it would be very hard to realize.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at work in laboratory. Photo: Public domain via Wikicommons. CTech \u2013 When chemistry Nobel laureate Michael Levitt met his wife two years ago, he didn\u2019t know it would lead to a wonderful friendship with a young Israeli scientist. When Israeli scientist Shahar Barbash decided to found a startup with the aim of cutting down [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,19,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-chemistry","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}