BIRMINGHAM –
The Michigan Israel Business Bridge will be holding its 2015 Ambassador Awards
Dinner October 14th at The Reserve in Birmingham. MIBB will be presenting
two awards during the dinner.
The Bridge Builder Award is being presented to Delphi Automotive in honor of
their continued work with Israel start-ups and established companies.
The award
will be accepted by Jeff Owens, Delphi’s chief technology officer and executive
vice president. Owens is responsible for the enterprise information
technology function and Delphi’s global engineering organization, which
includes over 19,000 technologists located in 15 major tech centers. It
is fitting the he accept this award, as he leads the company’s innovation
strategies while driving advanced technologies supporting the company’s global
megatrends of safe, green and connected.
The Chuck
Newman Impact Award, named for the organization’s co-founder, will be presented
to Dr. Eva L. Feldman. Throughout her career, Dr. Eva Feldman, the Russell N.
DeJong Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan, has made it her
mission to use scientific discoveries to understand and cure human diseases. In
January 2008, Dr. Feldman was named the first Director of the A.Alfred
Taubman Medical Research Institute.
In her own
work, Dr. Feldman is on the forefront of applying stem cell research to human
disease. Most notably she is the Principal Investigator of the first clinical
trial of intraspinal transplantation of stem cells in patients with ALS, which
received FDA approval in April 2013 to proceed to Phase 2. Dr. Feldman has been
working with Dr. Benjamin Reubinoff, Director of the Human Embryonic Stem Cell
Research Center at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem on Stem Cell Research
since 2009.
“We are honored and thrilled to be presenting awards to Delphi and Dr. Feldman,”
said MIBB President, Hannan Lis. “It is our pleasure to have them join
with last year’s awardees, General Dynamics Land Systems and Chuck Newman in
their support of Michigan Israel collaborations.”
