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    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology > Cancer Research

    Tag Archives: Cancer Research

    LUCIA (Horizon Europe) Project Kickoff

    27/02/2023
    תמונה קבוצתית

    At the beginning of February, the Technion hosted the kickoff meeting for LUCIA, an international project and consortium supported by the Horizon Europe Program and headed by coordinator Prof. Hossam Haick of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering. The two-day event was attended by sixty experts from Israel and several EU countries. The consortium’s goal… Read More

    Paving the way for Cancer Vaccines

    31/08/2022

    “It is basically a ‘therapeutic cancer vaccine’,” Prof. Arie Admon from the Technion Faculty of Biology explains the mechanism behind the immunotherapy cancer treatment that is the focus of his lab. “It activates the body’s own immune system against the tumor.” Immunotherapy treatments are coming to prominence in recent years, surpassing traditional chemotherapy in its… Read More

    Cancer Cells Learn, Adapt

    30/03/2022
    מימין לשמאל: אסיל שומר, פרופ' עמרי ברק ופרופ' נעמה ברנר

    What enables cancer to metastasize – to spread to different parts of the body, with their different environments – and grow there? How do tumors become resistant to drugs? In an opinion piece recently published in iScience, Technion researchers Aseel Shomar, Professor Omri Barak, and Professor Naama Brenner propose a novel explanation, in the hope… Read More

    World Cancer Day 2022

    04/02/2022

    A study carried out at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine sheds light on the mechanisms that sometimes result in successful chemotherapy, but that lead to the development of cancer metastasis – the main cause of cancer mortality. The article, published recently in Cancer Research, was selected to feature as the cover story and written about… Read More

    Boost for Anti-Cancer Drugs

    23/11/2021

    Researchers in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion developed a technology that inhibits development of melanoma using one-millionth of the active ingredient. The study, published in Advanced Functional Materials, was led by Prof. Marcelle Machluf, Dean of the Faculty, and PhD student Lior Levy. Immunotherapy in action. This development is a… Read More

    Can Baking Soda Help in the Fight Against Cancer?

    01/06/2021
    Hanan Abumanhal Masarweh

    The researcher behind this discovery is Hanan Abumanhal Masarweh of the Technion's Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, who received her Ph.D. from the Technion for her research under the supervision of Prof. Avi Schroeder of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering. Baking soda, the simple product that’s available at any supermarket, could revolutionize breast cancer treatment,… Read More

    New‌ ‌Pathway‌ ‌to ‌Attack‌ ‌Cancer‌ ‌Cells‌ ‌

    06/02/2021

    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… Read More

    Leukemia and the Brain

    20/10/2020

    The researchers include hematological-oncological experts from Schneider Children’s Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, and scientists from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Glasgow. They discovered that a drug that thwarts the production of fatty acids can block the spread of leukemia to the brain  An international research group from Israel… Read More

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