Weizmann Canada is the Canadian philanthropic arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, one of the top-ranking research institutes in the world, working in support of a common mission: science for the benefit of humanity. Weizmann Canada works to raise awareness for the outstanding research being done by the Institute’s scientists, generate support in order to maintain the standards of excellence and promote scientific literacy. The Weizmann Institute of Science is one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary basic research institutions in the natural and exact sciences. With 250 experimental and theoretical research groups across five faculties – Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science, and Physics – insights that emerge from Weizmann labs help provide a fundamental understanding of the human body and the universe, and lead to advances in medicine, technology, and the environment. Every day, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers strive to discover new ways of fighting disease and hunger, examine leading questions in mathematics and computer science, and probe the very physics of matter and the universe.