Tag Archives: Biomedical Engineering
Robotic Chemistry: A Significant Step on the Way to Nanoscale Medicine
Researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed an automatic system for the design and preparation of stabilizing materials to produce a “nanometric package” – a platform for delivering drugs to cancer tumors in the body. In an article published in the journal Biomaterials, the researchers report that by using the innovative… Read More
Precision Medicine
This year’s Annual Project Presentation Conference at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Biomedical Engineering was awarded to students Maya Almagor and Roni Baron. Under the supervision of Professor Yuval Garini, the two developed a technology for spectral imaging of cancer biopsies for precision medicine. According to the students, “Personalized medicine is… Read More
Technion Inaugurates MRI Research Center
The first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was performed on a live patient nearly 50 years ago. Since then, the method has become indispensable for performing non-invasive imaging of internal bodily structures and the brain. While the conventional radiological imaging technique is already well established around the world, many advanced methods and other MRI applications… Read More
Window to the Nervous System
New material developed in a joint study between the Technion and the University of Chicago paves the way for restoring damaged nerve tissue and heart pacing through an external light source on the body. It is based on the concept that light projected into the body (near-infrared) will hit a membrane made of the new… Read More
The Steak is the Limit
The successful creation of edible muscle fibers by bioprinting a plant-based scaffold and living animal cells is the subject of a new article by Professor Shulamit Levenberg and Ph.D. student Iris Ianovici of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, in collaboration with cultured meat producers Aleph Farms. Other… Read More
AI Center Inaugural Datathon
The new Technion-Rambam Center for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (CAIH) – a joint initiative of Rambam Health Care Campus and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - organized a Datathon - an information-based competition - as its inaugural event. Eight teams and 50 participants worked on four challenges proposed by Rambam physicians. The event… Read More
The Digital Health Revolution
The Technion and Rambam Health Care Campus are setting up a new joint Technion-Rambam Center for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (CAIH) that will signal a revolution in medical decision-making. The CAIH, the first joint academic-hospital AI center in Israel and one of the first in the world, will develop advanced artificial intelligence systems to analyze… Read More
Tech for Human Health
Three research groups have won a unique grant from the Technion's Human Health Initiative (THHI). THHI is the brainchild of Technion President Professor Uri Sivan and was established last year with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary research related to the worlds of health and medicine. “Human health is one of the main challenges facing humanity… Read More
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
March 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic is casting terror on the whole world. In Israel, a strict lockdown is declared, leaving most of the country’s population stuck inside their homes. In those crazy days, Sofia Segal was in her house in the Carmel with her husband and two children, watching children’s theater on television. Glancing at… Read More
Two Technion researchers won prestigious Proof of Concept grants from the European Commission for Research (ERC)
Two Technion faculty members have won Proof of Concept (PoC) grants from the European Commission for Research (ERC). The prestigious grants, each worth €150,000, 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… Read More