In addition to tapping $ 1.5 billion in core facilities that include the first supercomputer in the region, an industrial - class a nofabrication
lab, a top -
rated visualization center, and a dozen state - of - the - art nuclear magnetic resonance machines, faculty
members will get from $ 400,000 to $ 800,000 apiece per year for 5 years to outfit and staff their
labs.
The experiment, led by Dr. Lavi Secundo, together with Dr. Kobi Snitz and Kineret Weissler, all
members of the
lab of Prof. Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department, developed a complex, multidimensional mathematical formula for determining, based on the subjects»
ratings, how similar any two odors are to one another in the human sense of smell.