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Professor Hossam Haick of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) at the Technion has been awarded three European research grants through the Horizon Europe program, totaling 4.2 million euros. Prof. Haick, the dean of undergraduate studies at the Technion and an expert in nanotechnology and non-invasive disease diagnosis, was awarded the grants for his research in cancer treatments. For the first grant, Prof. Haick will focus on understanding the risk factors surrounding lung cancer more closely, including personal risk factors such as lifestyle and pollutant exposure, external factors such as urban environments, transportation,…
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…