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Nanosynex, an innovative medtech startup that traces its beginnings to Technion Professor Shulamit Levenberg’s lab, is now on the frontlines in Israel tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. The three year old-company, co-founded by alumnae Michelle Heymann MBA ’16 and Diane Abensur Bessin MBA ’16, is partnering with Israeli emergency…
Technion to Award Honorary Doctorate to Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla for extraordinary achievement in developing a vaccine for COVID-19 The President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Professor Uri Sivan announced that the Technion will award an honorary doctorate to Pfizer CEO
A Technion Innovation to capture COVID-19 viral particles with an active sanitization gel A Technion student team recently won a gold medal in the iGEM international synthetic biology competition for work developing an active gel to capture SARS-CoV-2 viral particles, preventing the infection of host
Technion Assistant Professor Daniel Soudry joins Intel’s Rising Star Faculty award program Intel’s Rising Star Faculty Award program selected 10 university faculty members who show great promise in developing future computing technologies. From projects such as a novel cloud system stack, to ultra-low power computing
Three scientists who received Technion’s Harvey Prize will be awarded a Nobel Prize in 2020 Technion Harvey Prize as a predictor of the Nobel. In early October 2020, the Nobel Prize Committee announced the winners for this year’s prestigious international prize. Three of the new
For the first time, the Minister of Science and Technology and representatives of the United Arab Emirates participated in the final event of the BizTEC Entrepreneurship Program at the Technion. Since the program’s founding in 2004, its graduates have raised more than $750 million. Dr.
Unique ‘Introduction to Practical Quantum Computing’ Summer School The first of its kind in Israel: Technion summer school program ‘Introduction to Practical Quantum Computing’ attracts over 570 registrations. Ph.D. student Tasneem Biadsy Technion opened Israel’s first summer school in practical quantum computing on Sunday, October
A team of students from the Technion and the University of Missouri won second place at MedHacks — a hackathon for developing medical technologies hosted by Johns Hopkins University. They were awarded for developing the Scan&Sound application, which detects strokes at early stages and alerts
Kira Radinsky ’08, Ph.D.’12, is a detective of sorts, but she’s not looking for light-fingered employees or cheating spouses. She’s seeking causalities and patterns that connect seemingly unrelated occurrences to spot the early warning signs of high-impact future events, including political riots and disease epidemics.
The Technion’s First Virtual Board of Governors Meeting Showcases the University’s Prowess The State of the Technion is strong, despite, or perhaps because of, the hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic. That was one of the key take-aways from the Technion Board of Governors Meeting
Israel’s Chemistry Team that was trained at the Technion has been awarded a gold medal, two silver medals and a bronze medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad, which recently took place online due to COVID-19. Over the past week, 240 young girls and boys from
Teva and the Technion Announce Collaboration to Promote Innovative R&D in the Fields of Cancer and Neurobiology. The collaboration is a significant link in a chain of collaborations Teva has initiated with leading academic institutions, including Tel Aviv University, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and more.
