Tag Archives: Medicine
Technion Friends Collaborate
The Technion announced today that two well-known foundations have joined together in a collaborative effort to enhance the Technion Human Health Initiative. The undertaking will establish the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Human Health Building, which will be home to the Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Cancer Research Center. [CONTINUED BELOW] At the cornerstone laying ceremony… Read More
Afraid of dental implants?
Dental implants, made of titanium or titanium alloys, are widely used to provide a durable solution to missing teeth and restore functionality. Unfortunately, after a variable number of months, about 30% of the patients may experience peri-implantitis, a disease that manifests itself by jawbone regression around the implant and gradual exposure of the implant’s threads.… Read More
A Life-Saving Exercise
The Center for the Acquisition of Clinical Skills at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion has been holding trauma courses since the beginning of the war that train the participants in life-saving skills Since the beginning of the war, the Center for the Acquisition of Clinical Skills at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine… Read More
Spreading Light Through Teaching
More than 250 volunteers from the Technion mobilized to help teach students who were evacuated from their homes About a week after the outbreak of the war, in mid-October, Prof. Yohai Carmel from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering came across a volunteer academy project . This new and exciting initiative is designed to harness members of… Read More
Admissions for Overseas Medical Students in the Reserves During the War Under Order-8
The Forum of Deans of Medical Faculties in Israel, including Prof. Eli Pikarski, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine at @HebrewU, has developed a framework for the admission of students studying medicine abroad, conscripted to the IDF under Order 8, who are unable to resume their studies. This initiative acknowledges their contributions and aims… Read More
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