October 9, 2013 | Professor Amir Sagi from Ben Gurion University, who invented a novel biotechnology application to produce all male populations of the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii through temporal RNA interference, is the winner of the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s (GAA) inaugural Novus Global Aquaculture Innovation Award. Sagi is the former Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, incumbent of the Lily and Sidney Oelbaum Chair for Applied Biochemistry and a member of the Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN).
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