How do you rebuild your lab after it is hit by an Iranian missile?

Following the devastating missile attack on the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel by Iran on 15 June that destroyed around 45 labs, the dean of the faculty of chemistry is adamant that they will build it back better than ever.

Milko van der Boom has been at the Weizmann Institute for about three decades and has served as the head of several key chemistry departments before assuming his current leadership role in December 2024. He joined from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands as a summer student while working on his master’s degree in inorganic chemistry and never left.