Tag Archives: Medicine
The Science of Today – the Healer of Tomorrow
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Rambam Health Care Campus, and philanthropists Andi and Larry Wolfe announced the establishment of the Wolfe Center for Translational Medicine and Engineering on Sunday, June 12. The Center will combine engineering and medicine to promote new technologies for the benefit of human health. The Wolfe Center will bring the partnership between… Read More
Learning and Remembering Movement
From the moment we are born, and even before that, we interact with the world through movement. We move our lips to smile or to talk. We extend our hand to touch. We move our eyes to see. We wiggle, we walk, we gesture, we dance. How does our brain remember this wide range of… Read More
Photopharmacology
Calcium is an element that is vital to our health. While its effects on bone strength are particularly well known, it has a far broader function in the human body. Calcium is a “messenger” that transmits signals between cells and plays an important part in processes that control gene expression in immune cells, muscle contraction,… Read More
Celebrating 3 Israel Prizes
Tonight, on Israel's Independence Day, three Technion professors will receive the prestigious Israel Prize, an unprecedented number: Prof. Emeritus Joshua Zak of the Faculty of Physics will be awarded for Physics and Chemistry Research; Prof. Emeritus Yoram Palti of the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine will receive the award in the field of… 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
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
From Tehran to Haifa, from Selegiline to Azilect
Professor Emeritus Moussa Youdim of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology is the recipient of the 2022 Israel Prize for Life Sciences. The Prize Committee noted that the prize was awarded to Prof. Youdim "for his pioneering, groundbreaking scientific achievements in the field of neuropharmacology. He has placed… 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
Take a Bow
At the age of eight, Tamar Koren began playing the violin. “I fell in love with the sound of this instrument, a sound full of depth and expression. Over the years, playing the violin became a central part of my life: concerts, courses, master classes, auditions, hours of practice every day. I guess anyone who… Read More
Israel Prize to Profs. Zak, Palti
Two Technion professors will receive the prestigious Israel Prize in May 2022: Prof. Emeritus Joshua Zak of the Faculty of Physics will be awarded the 2022 Israel Prize for Physics and Chemistry Research. Known for the Zak Transform and the Zak Phase, Prof. Zak is awarded for his contribution to the understanding of condensed matter physics.… Read More