The Michigan Israel Business Bridge (MIBB) will be holding their 2015 Ambassador Awards Dinner on Wednesday, 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. Mr. 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.”
MIBB is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote business, investment and research opportunities. The organization is the premier resource for economic development between Michigan and Israel. The Ambassador Awards Dinner is an opportunity for the community to pay tribute to the honorees and support the work of MIBB.
Source: MIBB
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