June 2015
An important link between the Lin28 gene and Wilms Tumor has recently been identified by Dr. Achia Urbach, a senior lecturer at BIU. Wilms Tumor comes about due to the improper development of the kidney during the fetal stage, and is the most common form of kidney cancer in children.
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June 2015
The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø University and the UJA Federation of New York joined forces to present a “What’s Up Israel: Consultation” event for Jewish high school educators, which featured two of the Jewish world’s leading advocates for strengthening Israel-education programs at all levels.
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June 2015
In what promises to be a major breakthrough in the treatment of shingles, scientists at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø have been the first to recreate the dormant/active behavior of the varicella zoster virus (VZV), which causes chicken pox. Shingles, which afflicts tremendous pain on millions of adults every year, is caused by a “similar” virus.
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May 2015
As ²ÝÁñÉçÇø University kicks off its 60th anniversary celebrations, the Azrieli Foundation has announced that it will make a $50 million donation to the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø School of Medicine in the Galilee, the largest donation ever made by the Foundation and the largest pledge ever received by ²ÝÁñÉçÇø University.
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May 2015
²ÝÁñÉçÇø University experts are collaborating with top industry pioneers on new materials and techniques for electric vehicles. Development of electric cars has taken on greater urgency as the vast majority of scientists agree that fossil fuels endanger both the environment and human health.
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May 2015
With cyber-terror becoming a growing threat to the national security of the US, Israel and the entire Western World, two ²ÝÁñÉçÇø professors are working feverishly to fast-forward strategies that will provide a more secure cyber-future at all possible levels of attack.
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May 2015
In its first cooperative venture with a professor at an Israeli university, Pfizer has announced that it will be collaborating with BIU Prof. Ido Bachelet on his research project that will enable DNA robots to deliver medical proteins to designated tissue.
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May 2015
Creative energy, originality and vision have always been at the heart of the research taking place amongst the faculty at the BIU School of Engineering. Here are two sterling examples.
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June 2015
Whether it’s creating a bionic contact lens to help the blind see or developing an optical heartbeat monitor, Prof. Zeev Zalevsky enables people to see the world in a whole new way. Zalevsky is one of Israel’s most prolific inventors, with more than 50 patents registered in his name.
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May 2015
A “trio” of proteins that appear to play a pivotal role in the onset of various cancers has been revealed by Uri Nir, Director of the Nano Medicine Center at the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø. Nir is now proceeding to develop novel anti-cancer drugs that will target key regulators.
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April 2015
As it celebrates its 60th anniversary, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø has inaugurated the Presidential Award of Distinction. The University has chosen six Americans to receive this Award – Eli Hirmes, Laurie Moskowitz Hirsch, Dr. Don Lebell, Gary Ran, Dr. Joseph D. Rosenblatt, and Alice Neuman Schoenfeld.
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March 2015
In the age of cyber-attacks and credit card fraud over the Internet, Dr. Osnat Keren says there is another “Achilles heel” that we overlook at our peril: the vulnerability of our hardware devices.
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March 2015
For years Prof. Eli Kolberg’s robots have played soccer — against each other and against teams from all over the world — in the annual Robot World Cup (RoboCup) tournament. Each of his autonomous robots is programmed with a software brain that controls it and allows it to communicate with its teammates.
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March 2015
When it comes to cancer of the breast, there’s a problem: the initial diagnosis sometimes marks the beginning of a long process, in which doctors struggle to identify the best therapeutic approach.
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March 2015
Dr. Michael Blank’s father’s death set him on a career path to be part of a research team that discovered a tumor suppressor gene called Smurf2, and now pursue his quest to understand the origin of cancer cells as assistant professor and senior lecturer at the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø University (BIU) Medical School in Safed.
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March 2015
Improving public health in Northern Israel is the mission of Dr. Mary Rudolf, head of Public Health at the BIU Med School. A world-renowned expert in combating child-obesity, she oversees a project to cultivate a new generation of physicians to serve disadvantaged and underserved patients in the Galilee.
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January 2015
Dr. Meir Shamay is focusing on uncovering the mechanism of cancer development caused by transmitted viruses, at his lab at the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø University Medical School in Safed.
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January 2015
Navigating effective ways to provide high quality healthcare to patients at risk both in America and northern Israel is among the major learning insights of students participating in the exchange program between Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va., and the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Medical School in Safed, Israel.
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December 2014
²ÝÁñÉçÇø University Prof. Pnina Klein, winner of the 2011 Israel Prize in Education Research, died on November 27th following a battle with cancer. Prof. Klein, who was 69, oversaw numerous US projects that improved the lives of children at risk.
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November 2014
As we age, there’s a normal decline of cognitive function, but by age 65, about one sixth of the population exhibits the creeping dementia associated with Alzheimer’s. Dr. Okun and his research team are fighting that trend.
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