Tag Archives: Cancer Research
LUCIA (Horizon Europe) Project Kickoff
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
“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
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
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
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?
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
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
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