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Two Technion faculty members have won Proof of Concept (PoC) grants from the European Commission for Research (ERC). The prestigious grants, each worth $165,000, are intended to promote the application and commercialization of academic research, including the establishment of a start-up company. They are awarded only to researchers who have won an ERC grant in the past. Professor Shulamit Levenberg from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering won an award for her innovative development for 3D bioprinting and post-printing tissue growth: Print and Grow. Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is one of the most promising technologies in the world for tissue engineering. Bioprinting…
Students of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering served up creative and tasty innovations to win top prizes in the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Food Solutions Project — the latest in a string of victories in EU-supported competitions. This year’s competition was aimed at finding delicious and sustainable real-world solutions to problems faced by the food industry. The Bioat Group won first place for a challenge presented by Finnish company Myllyn Paras to create an innovative product using an oat-based ingredient. The students developed a vegan “labane” (a cheese-like spread common in Israel) made from fermented…
Pictured Above / BizTEC 2021 winners Team Defi (L to R): Prof. Ezri Tarazi , Ravit Abel, Idan Shenfeld, Alon Gilad, Yaron Arbel, Eyal Kellner, and Ohad Yaniv The Defi team, established by Technion students, won first prize and $10,000 in the BizTEC 2021 entrepreneurship competition, which took place in Tel Aviv. The prize was awarded to the team members for the development of a compact portable defibrillator, which is inexpensive and easy to use. Two teams took second place: BrainSense, which developed a system that monitors stroke events by identifying changes in brain activity and whose members are Technion…
Maj. Gen. Horev served in the Palmach, the elite fighting force of the Jewish underground army during the British Mandate for Palestine. He started to study mechanical engineering at the Technion, but his education was cut short with the outbreak of the War of Independence in 1948. He fought in Jerusalem and in the Negev […]
The National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (collectively known as NAI-IPO) has ranked the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology as one of the top 100 worldwide universities granted U.S. utility patents. The achievement is yet another international recognition of the Technion’s rigorously entrepreneurial and innovative spirit on campus — an ethos that has produced thousands of inventions from both researchers and alumni, including a device that uses AI to detect the scent of more than 23 specific disease biomarkers in a person’s breath, the USB flash drive, and a robotic suit that enables paraplegics to…
Photonics Pioneer Reflects on Her Journey to Success Professor Michal Lipson ’92, M.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’98, is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics at Columbia University, president-elect of the Optical Society, a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, and a pioneer in the field of nanophotonics. More than 1,000 papers published yearly involve devices and circuits based on her research. The Technion is family, as her father and father-in-law were both professors at the university. In 2021, you became the first woman to receive the John Tyndall Award for outstanding contributions to optical-fiber technology. What inspired you to…
German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, popular in Israel for her unwavering support for the Jewish nation, received an honorary doctorate from the Technion in Jerusalem on October 10 during her farewell visit to Israel. Chancellor Merkel will not seek a fifth term as chancellor after serving for 16 years. “I am proud to receive the honorary degree from the Technion as a scientist and not just as a politician,” said Dr. Merkel, who holds a doctorate in the natural sciences from the German Academy of Science in Berlin. “Israel was founded on a vision that was as scientific — technological…
Pictured above: Technion alumnus Dr. Andrei Broder Technion alumnus Andrei Broder was recently awarded the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The peer-selected award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing. Dr. Broder, along with his colleagues Yossi Azar, Anna Karlin, Michael Mitzenmacher, and Eli Upfal, were recognized for their Balanced Allocations framework, also known as the power of two choices, and their extensive applications to practice. By way of illustrating the Balanced Allocations framework, imagine you and a few friends are tossing…
H2OLL, an innovative Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) technology developed at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, has won the prestigious Water Europe Innovation Award for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). More than 10% of the world’s population — over 670 million people — presently have no access to clean drinking water, impacting public health, education, and gender equality. It’s why access to water is a critical part of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: clean water means better health and well-being, a healthier climate, a stronger education system. It even has implications for gender equality, as in many places…
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…
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…