The Academy congratulates Dr. Oren Pleniceanu upon receiving the prestigious "Ziegler prize" for 2022

The Ziegler prize was established by the Ziegler family in memory of Reuven Ziegler, and recognizes young physicians and researchers for applied research, this year's focus being "precision medicine".  Pleniceanu won for his recent work on the topic of Successful Introduction of Human Renovascular Units into the Mammalian Kidney, which was published in the Journal of American Society of Nephrology (J Am Soc Nephrol 31: 2757–2772, 2020).

The prizes is administered by the Israeli National Academy of Medical Sciences in conjunction with the Ziegler family and the Technion's Rappaport Faculty of Medicine.