ViVac Pharma has been named the winner of the 2026 Asper Prize for “The Hebrew University Rising Startup,” receiving the competition’s top honor and a NIS 100,000 award. Led by ASPER-HUJI Innovate in partnership with the Asper Foundation, the annual competition celebrates outstanding startups emerging from the Hebrew University community and highlights the University’s growing role in advancing entrepreneurship, innovation, and real-world impact.

Clinical trials play a vital role in progress against breast cancer. As part of the National Clinical Trials Network sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology works to advance cancer research and expand access to promising screening strategies and treatments. Through its clinical trials, the Alliance helps generate the evidence needed to improve care and bring better treatment options to patients. Today, the Alliance and Alliance Foundation Trials (AFT) have eight active trials open to people with breast cancer. Each represents another opportunity to advance research, improve care, and shape the future of breast cancer treatment.

The winners of the Applied Microbiology International Horizon Awards 2026 have been announced. 

The prizes, awarded by the learned society Applied Microbiology International (AMI), celebrate the brightest minds in the field and promote the research, group, projects, products and individuals who continue to help shape the future of applied microbiology. 

A trip to Mars may be more feasible than previously thought, suggests a new study led by Northwestern Medicine, UT Southwestern and UT Houston that tracked the heart function of 13 astronauts during roughly six-month missions aboard the International Space Station.