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Pictured above (L to R): Prof. Gideon Grader, Prof. Avner Rothschild, and Dr. Yaniv Romano The 2020 Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Global Innovation in Smart Mobility and Alternative Fuels for Transportation will be awarded to eight researchers, three of whom are Technion faculty members: Professor Avner Rothschild, Professor Gideon (Gidi) Grader, and Dr. Yaniv Romano. The $1 million award is the world’s largest in the fields of smart mobility and alternative fuels for transportation. It is awarded annually by the Smart Mobility Administration in the Prime Minister’s Office in Israel, in conjunction with the Ministry of…
Every year students at the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech journey to Haifa to collaborate with Technion students and faculty. Often their first trip to Israel, the master’s students visit Technion labs, participate in a social impact hackathon, and soak up Israel’s startup ecosystem. While the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to go virtual, this year’s version of the experiential iTrek Program may have been the most creative yet. This year’s semester-long iTrek was organized jointly by the Technion, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, and MindState Ideation Lab, which gathers students, entrepreneurs, and designers to create societal change….
While the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccinations has been well studied, little is known about whether those who have gotten one or both of the shots can still spread the virus. Now, a study hailed as a “game-changer” has demonstrated for the first time that people who catch the virus after being vaccinated are far less infectious — even after just the first dose. A joint team of researchers from the Technion and Israel’s Maccabi Healthcare Services found that the vaccine reduced the viral load significantly in COVID-positive people who have been inoculated versus those who haven’t received the vaccine….
Hailed by The Washington Post as a “leap forward for lab-grown meat,” the Technion and food startup Aleph Farms Ltd. have unveiled the first-ever 3D printed ribeye steak, developed from the technology of Professor Shulamit Levenberg. After two years of advancements, the product tastes like “a delicious tender, juicy ribeye steak you’d buy from the butcher,” said company officials, but without harm to animals and the environment. The Post said Aleph Farms would bring premium cuts to the market, “broadening the scope of alt-meat” once the product receives regulatory approval. The newspaper also noted that alternative protein products have soared…
Everyone knows taking a walk is good for your health and well-being. But to attain an even greater positive impact, people should actively interact with their surroundings, according to a recent Technion study. Smell the flowers. Feel the grass between your toes. Taste the honeysuckle. And yes, take a selfie in the botanical gardens. The findings, published recently in Conservation Biology, are particularly relevant during the pandemic as people spend more time in nature to lift their spirits. A team of Technion researchers conducted a study of 1,023 visitors to Israel’s lush Ramat Hanadiv Memorial Gardens and Nature Park to…
Nanosynex, an innovative medtech startup that traces its beginnings to Technion Professor Shulamit Levenberg’s lab, is now on the frontlines in Israel tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. The three year old-company, co-founded by alumnae Michelle Heymann MBA ’16 and Diane Abensur Bessin MBA ’16, is partnering with Israeli emergency medical services organization United Hatzalah to roll out COVID-19 rapid diagnostic kits. The launch is part of a pilot initiative to ramp up mass testing efforts. Even though Israel is the most vaccinated country on Earth, having doled out coronavirus vaccines to more than half its population (as of early February), COVID-19…
Technion researchers are accustomed to receiving awards for complex science breakthroughs conducted in their labs. Now they can claim a little piece of Hollywood. Technion alumni have received an Oscar and an Emmy — announced recently within the span of 10 days. Global video software company Beamr, whose technological leaders are graduates of the Technion’s Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, won a 2021 Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award for Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization. “It’s amazing,” said Technion alumna Tamar Shoham M.Sc. ’09. “I often encounter glossy looks when I say I’m an engineer…
Industrial design, metallurgy and music — yes, music — all came together in this unique student project. Anastasia Kolomiets, a master’s student in the Technion Faculty of Architecture, designed and manufactured the first-ever titanium flute made with 3D-printing. This elegant recorder was honored with a photo in Wohlers Report, often referred to as the “bible” of 3D printing, and also placed third in the GE-Arcam UGM Competition 2019 for “Best Creative part.”
When treating cancer, researchers are always searching for ways to remove cancer cells while minimizing damage to the rest of the body. One possible approach is to find processes unique to cancer cells, and which would allow specific targeting. If such a process can be disrupted, only those cells would be affected. A process (or absence thereof) can be unique to some types of cancer, and not be present in others. In such a case, we would want a simple way to recognize whether a particular tumor possesses the unique trait or not. The implication of this question is whether…
Researchers from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion have uncovered a mechanism that translates the information stored in DNA into proteins. The study, published in Cell Reports, was led by molecular microbiology principal investigator Professor Mordechai Choder and Dr. Stephen Richard, with Dr. Tamar Ziv and Keren Bendalak of the Smoler Proteomics Center at the Technion.
The European Union recently recognized Dr. Netanel Korin of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering and Professor Emanuel Milman of the Faculty of Mathematics with prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants totaling about $4.5 million. The Technion professors were selected from an initial pool of 2,453 researchers, then narrowed to 301 winners. Allocated by Horizon 2020, the biggest EU research and innovation program ever, the grants honored scientists with a focus on pioneering research, including multidisciplinary projects. Dr. Korin won for developing technology to treat brain aneurysms, weakened areas in a blood vessel of the brain that can rupture and cause brain damage…
Former Technion President, Distinguished Professor Yitzhak Apeloig will receive the prestigious 2021 Schrodinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC). Prof. Apeloig, who served as Technion president from 2001 until 2009, is being honored for his seminal computational and experimental contributions to silicone chemistry and organic chemistry. The medal is awarded each year to a single scientist whose impact on theoretical and computational chemistry is particularly outstanding. Past recipients of this honor include four Chemistry Nobel Prize winners and many of the most influential scientists of computational quantum chemistry. Prof. Apeloig, who is a member of…