Breakthrough Dividend: Appendix F - Abbreviations
Breakthrough Dividend: Breakthrough Dividend: Table of Contents
Breakthrough Dividend: |
| ARO | Israel Agricultural Research Organization |
| BARD | U.S.-Israel Agricultural Research & Development Fund |
| BGU | Ben-Gurion University |
| BIRD | U.S.-Israel Industrial Research & Development Foundation |
| BSF | U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| ELISA | Enzyme-linked Immunosorbant Assay |
| FDA | U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
| GCP | FDA Good Clinical Practices Regulations |
| GNP | Gross National Product |
| HU | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| IHE | Institutions of Higher Education |
| MATIMOP | Israel Industry Center for R&D (Hebrew) |
| MERC | AID's Middle-East Regional Cooperation Program |
| MIT | Israel Ministry of Industry and Trade |
| MOH | Israel Ministry of Health |
| MOSA | Israel Ministry of Science and the Arts |
| NCB | Israel National Committee for Biotechnology |
| NSCB | Israel National Steering Committee for Biotechnology |
| OCS | Office of the Chief Scientist |
| PTC | Plant Tissue Culture |
| RA | Research Authority |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| RTP | Research Triangle Park, N.C. |
| S&T | Science and Technology |
| TAU | Tel Aviv University |
| USISTC | U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission |
| VATAT | Planning and Grants Committee of the Israel Council on Higher Education (Hebrew) |
| WGB | The USISTC's Working Group on Biotechnology |
| YISSUM | Hebrew University's Commercialization Unit |