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New Israeli Satellite Honors Fallen Soldier, Massacre Victims
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and state-owned defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) are collaborating on a project to build a communications satellite in honor of a fallen Israel Defense Forces officer who was set to begin studying at the university. Captain (res.) Denis Krokhmalov Veksler, fell in battle in Gaza in January […]
May 13, 2024
Israeli Prof. Wins Turing Award, Known As ‘Nobel Prize Of Computing’
Internationally renowned Israeli computer scientist and mathematician Prof. Avi Wigderson has been awarded the A.M. Turing Award, colloquially known as the “Nobel Prize of Computing.” Wigderson, a graduate of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and former faculty member of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is currently a professor at the Institute […]
April 14, 2024
AI Tool Helps Doctors Pick Optimum Cancer Treatment For Patients
An Israeli medtech company is using artificial intelligence to help oncologists decide the best and most effective course of treatment for their cancer patients. OncoHost’s main focus is on treatments for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). According to the World Cancer Research Fund, lung cancer is the second most common cancer (after breast cancer) and […]
April 10, 2024
Israeli Prof. Wins US Grant For Innovative Mental Health Research
An Israeli professor is among 10 international recipients of an award for innovative neurobiological and behavioral research. Prof. Dorit Ben-Shachar from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is one of the 10 senior-level scientists to equally share the grant of $1 million from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF). Ben-Shachar aims to target […]
April 08, 2024
Nasal Therapy That Could Help People With Spinal Injuries Walk Again
An innovative, noninvasive Israeli medication administered through the nose hopes to be a life-changer for people suffering acute spinal cord injuries – even helping them to walk again. NurExone Biologic Inc. developed ExoPTEN, which treats damage to the nervous system, from a concept created by two members of its Scientific Advisory Board: Prof. Shulamit Levenberg […]
March 20, 2024
MedTech Hub Fostering Israeli Arabs’ ‘Underutilized’ Creativity
An Israeli medtech incubator has expanded its operations from central Israel to the north of the country, aiming to tap into an undervalued yet prominent community working in the country’s healthcare sector. While there is an exceptionally large representation of Israeli Arabs in the medical sector, few of them had previously been involved in innovation, […]
March 13, 2024
Israeli High-Tech Pioneer Yehuda Zisapel Dies At 81
Yehuda Zisapel, one of the founding fathers of Israel’s renowned high-tech industry, died Sunday at the age of 81. In the 1980s, Zisapel and his younger brother Zohar founded the RAD Group – an umbrella organization of independent Israeli telecommunications and networking companies. It evolved from their original company RAD Data Communications Ltd, which remains […]
March 11, 2024
Study: Protein Indicates Likely Success of Cancer Immunotherapy
Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a way to potentially predict the success of immunotherapy treatment in cancer patients. Immunotherapy involves encouraging the body’s immune system to attack the cancer cells. This can be complicated by the cancer cells “hiding” within the body or the immune system itself being reluctant […]
February 22, 2024
Using AI-Made Models To Find Cures For Disease
To bring a new drug to market costs on average $1.3 billion, according to a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and takes up to 20 years. These astronomical sums do factor in the billions of dollars and years of research invested in what potentially promising therapies that ultimately lead nowhere, […]
February 14, 2024
New Tool Determines Cancer Patient Response To Immunotherapy
Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a new tool to determine whether a cancer patient is predisposed to an advanced kind of treatment called immunotherapy. The immune system contains “checkpoints” to prevent it from attacking cancer cells too strongly, as this would also potentially damage nearby healthy cells. […]
February 04, 2024
3 Israeli Research Projects Win $1M Prize For Climate Solutions
Three Israeli research projects have won a $1 million prize for initiatives tackling the climate crisis. The prize is designed to advance groundbreaking innovation and research that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Solutions Breakthrough Research Prize is awarded by the Jewish National Fund of Canada with the support of Keren Kayemet LeYisrael (KKL-JNF), […]
January 28, 2024
Technion Holds Robophysics Course For Evacuated High Schoolers
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has held a week-long program in robophysics (how robots move in the real world) for outstanding high school students who were evacuated from their homes close to the northern border with Lebanon. The Technion uses its study of robophysics as a way of teaching other fields such as […]
November 22, 2023
Eye In The Sky: Startup Gifts Aerial Mapping Tool To Israel At War
Almost from the first moment Hamas terrorists struck southern Israel on October 7, murdering more than 1,200 people, a startup that produces very detailed 3D models of urban areas made its platform free to the country’s security forces and emergency services. Simplex 3D uses a proprietary imaging system placed inside light aircraft to map and […]
November 15, 2023
Technion Supporting Students Fighting Hamas With Financial Aid
Israel’s leading science and engineering university is providing financial and emotional support for its students who have been called up as part of Israel’s mass mobilization of its reserve soldiers to fight the Hamas terror group. The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology will grant 6,000 shekels (approx. $1,570) to every student who has received […]
November 09, 2023
‘We Keep Going’: Cleantech Firm Resolute After Hamas Horror
An Israeli cleantech startup has created a versatile biomaterial from an easily cultivated plant, which not only removes carbon dioxide from the air but can also be used as a viable substitute for plastic and building materials. This should have been a feature solely about their innovation, but for Kenaf Ventures the world changed on […]
November 05, 2023