Tag Archives: Medicine
Technion Researchers Awarded 5 Prestigious ERC Starting Grants to Lead Innovative Projects
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded five early-career Technion researchers with Starting Grants, recognizing the great promise in their research fields. These grants, part of the EU’s Horizon Europe Program, are awarded to talented early-career scientists who completed their doctoral degrees only two to seven years ago, and have already produced excellent work, showing… Read More
‘Meta-Synergy’ for the Battle Against Cancer
Professor Yosi Shamay and his group at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology's Faculty of Biomedical Engineering have made major headway in a remarkable new approach to cancer treatment. Based on a new concept called “meta-synergy,” the group developed a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tool that makes it possible to find drug combinations that… Read More
New Discoveries about Spatial Memory
Our ability to recall past events, even distant ones, reflects a stability of memory and the parts of our brain responsible for it. On the other hand, new experiences integrating into old ones indicate memory plasticity. In the hippocampus, spatial representations also show the same duality: short-term stability, and drift in the long term. According… Read More
Deloro Prize 2023 to Prof. Jackie Schiller
The André Cohen Deloro Prize for 2023 was awarded to Professor Jackie Schiller of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine on Monday, June 12 during the Technion’s Board of Governors meeting. The prize is bestowed annually in recognition of outstanding multidisciplinary research in the field of human health, on behalf of the Adelis Foundation, in memory… Read More
Changing Medicine with AI
A new collaboration, focusing on the use of AI in the field of medicine, is taking shape these days. It will connect the University of Toronto's leading Center for AI in Medicine (T-CAIREM) to the Technion's Artificial Intelligence Hub (Tech.AI), specifically to Tech.AI.BioMed, Tech.AI's branch for the field of medicine. The collaboration will bring together… Read More
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
When Archaeology Meets the Exact Sciences
On Wednesday, January 18, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Haifa held a scholarly conference as part of a first-ever collaboration on the subject of technology and science in the study of archaeology and maritime cultures. The research collaboration, which has already begun at both universities, will propel the study… Read More
5 ERC Consolidator Grants Awarded to Technion Researchers
Five Technion researchers have been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) for pioneering projects in their respective disciplines. The ERC Consolidator grant aims to help excellent scientists, who have 7 to 12 years' experience after completing their PhDs, strengthen their research teams and pursue their most promising ideas. Each grant is for up to… Read More
Collaboration: Platform for Science & Medicine Advancement
The Michigan – Israel Partnership ‘Frontiers in Biomedical Research’ Conference, hosted by the Technion, recently took place at the Elma Arts Complex Hotel in Zikhron Yaacov. The conference was part of the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Scientific Symposium – a joint initiative of the Technion, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of… Read More
4 Researchers, 4 Fields, 4 ERC Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded four early-career Technion scientists with Starting Grants, recognizing the great promise in their research fields. These scientists are: Assistant Professor Inbal Talgam-Cohen from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science; Assistant Professor Ofra Amir from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management; Assistant Professor Noga Ron-Harel… Read More