280 high school students competed in this 2nd year Biotechnology Olympics competition. Ron Amit, a Twelve-grade high school student from Mevaseret Zion, won first place with his project: Cellular radiation implications on Alzheimer disease. He won a full scholarship for... Read MoreRead more about: Biotechnology Olympics: Celebration of Science, Engineering, and Innovation
Prof. Machluf in an in-depth interview for the weekend edition news... Read MoreRead more about: Prof. Marcelle Machluf, Dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food engineering – Featured interview, channel 12
Honoring our students on their academic achievements Photos from the... Read MoreRead more about: 2018 Distinguished Students Award Ceremony
1st prize at the European Union FOODIO competition for Food Innovation. After a year’s work the students conceived, developed and produced the Crisp’n Go, a yoghurt-like milk product with an addition of crackers of za’atar / curry flavors, the group... Read MoreRead more about: 1st prize at the European Union FOODIO competition for Food Innovation
The winning development of a competition held at the Technion earlier this month under the European consortium EIT-Food.... Read MoreRead more about: ”Algalafel”, a spirulina enriched falafel, with additional tahini enriched with astaxanthin developed by the Technion team
1st prize at The FOODIO Project! The FOODIO, Food Solutions Master Class is an education project coordinated by the University of Helsinki in consortium with the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), IMDEA Food Institute, University of Hohenheim, TECHNION – Technological... Read MoreRead more about: 1st prize at The FOODIO Project
The Technion team won the 1st prize at The Final Event of the EIT-Food project “Building Student Skills in Innovative Microalgae Product Development” that was held during Hanukkah break (3-4.12.18) at the department of Biotechnology & Food Engineering at the Technion... Read MoreRead more about: The Technion team won the 1st prize at The EIT FOOD Formulation Innovation Competition
Two Israeli start-ups competed at the Venture Summit event of EIT Food, held in Paris: Jet-Eat Printed Food LTD and Kiinns. The companies participated in the unique EIT-FAN program at the Technion’s Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering in cooperation... Read MoreRead more about: Jet-Eat was announced as the winner of the EIT Food accelerator program!
Three startups that were mentored at faculty made the short list of 10 finalists selected on October 24 to take part in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Food Venture Summit—the prestigious business gathering of the European Union’s agri-food innovation... Read MoreRead more about: Three startups mentored at the faculty will compete at the 2018 EU Food Venture Summit
The final results of the competition for the faculty posters held during the International Research Day / Food Day were received! Thanks to the members of the panel of judges: Prof. Amram Mor, Assistant Prof. Esti Miron-Holtz, Assistant Prof. Amit... Read MoreRead more about: The winners of the Faculty posters competition held in International Research Day / International Food Day 2018
We would like to congratulate our Ph.D. student Noa-Cohen Anavy for winning the “Best Poster Award” in the ICRS 2018 conference that took place last week. Noa’s poster subject was: ”Nano-ghosts for selective drug delivery across the blood-brain... Read MoreRead more about: Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Noa-Cohen Anavy for winning the “Best Poster Award” in the ICRS 2018 conference
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Amit Zeisel for being chosen as “Amit Horev” as part of Technion leaders in Science and Technology program, a program in which young researchers with academic excellence and great potential are identified as leading researchers in the... Read MoreRead more about: Assistant Professor Amit Zeisel was chosen as “Amit Horev” as part of Technion leaders in Science and Technology program
Congratulations to Nitzan Letko Khait on her outstanding performance in the Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting in New York 2018. Our Ph.D. student, Nitzan Letko Khait, from Prof. Marcelle Machluf lab, has been awarded the prestigious Kianam Park student travel award and... Read MoreRead more about: Dr. Nitzan Letko Khait won several awards in the CRS Annual Meeting in New York 2018
Assoc. Prof. Ayelet Fishman, Assoc. Prof. Esti Segal and Assistant Prof. Avi Shpigelman were among the judges of... Read MoreRead more about: Assoc. Prof. Ayelet Fishman, Assoc. Prof. Esti Segal and Assistant Prof. Avi Avi Shpigelman were among the judges of FOODTECH2018
Congrats to ISF grantees winners for 2018 cycle: Assistant Professor Esther Meyron Holtz Professor Amram Mor Professor Yuval... Read MoreRead more about: ISF grantees winners for 2018 cycle
Warm greetings to Associate Professor Uri Lesmes Associate Professor Yoav Livney Hila Korach Rechtman Stasia Kristol for the awards of Excellence in Teaching at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering spring semester 2017 / winter semester... Read MoreRead more about: Excellence in Teaching at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering spring semester 2017 – winter semester 2018:
The opening of EIT Food Accelerator was held on... Read MoreRead more about: Opening of EIT Food Accelerator
The graduation Ceremony was held on 28.6.2018. Congratulations to all... Read MoreRead more about: Graduation Ceremony
Prof. E. Litan Prize was awarded on 14/5/18 to four graduate students: Batel Deri That her doctoral dissertation on the subject: Development and Structural Insights of Novel Tyrosinase Inhibitors Joanna Jammal That her doctoral dissertation on the subject: Molecular Basis... Read MoreRead more about: Prof. E. Litan Prize Award 2018
Congratulations to the winners of the Kogan award: Alona Shagan and Idit Goldfrecht. The prize was awarded at a ceremony on Sunday (13.5.18). The award is given to students who traveled or going to travel to present their research at a... Read MoreRead more about: The Kogan prize for 2018 was awarded to 2 outstanding students
Congratulations to Yifat Cohen, PhD student from Prof. Yoav Livney lab, who was selected for one of the outstanding doctoral degrees in Europe as part of the joint workshop of the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST) and... Read MoreRead more about: Congratulations to our doctoral student Yifat Cohen from Prof. Livney lab, who was selected as one of the outstanding doctoral degrees in Europe
Congratulations to our PhD students Heidi Leonard and Michal Rosenberg for winning the best talk of the day awards at the 2018 Porous Semiconductors – Science and Technology conference. Heidi’s research focuses on the development a rapid diagnostic method for antimicrobial susceptibility and Michal... Read MoreRead more about: Heidi Leonard & Michal Rosenberg won the “best talk of the day awards” at the Porous Semiconductors 2018
National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science To learn more, Please visit: www.weizmann.ac.il/WomenInScience You can also contact Limor Rimon at women.awards@weizmann.ac.il , Tel: 08-9342821... Read MoreRead more about: National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science
Early-stage agri-food start-up? Apply for EIT Food Accelerator Network 2018 EIT FAN https://eit.europa.eu/eit-foods-offer is a new EU funded multi-location accelerator programme delivered across Europe. Over a 4 month acceleration period, start-ups will have access to a buffet of tools, connections, mentors,... Read MoreRead more about: Early-stage agri-food start-up? Apply for EIT Food Accelerator Network 2018
The cover story of Blood Journal’s January 18 issue presents research Led by Dr. Marianna Truman-Rosentsvit and Assistant Professor Esther Meyron-Holtz that uncovers, for the first time, a mechanism for cellular transport and secretion of ferritin, a protein that was... Read MoreRead more about: The Body’s Golden Gate to Iron Traffic
The collaboration between the laboratory of Prof. Marcelle Machluf of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering and Prof. Eyal Zussman of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, as part of the research project of Dr. Beth Shwan, a post-doctoral student from... Read MoreRead more about: Innovative technology for creating heart tissue engineered for transplantation in damaged heart
The Technion team won a gold medal at the International iGEM Competition for Synthetic Biology in the US. This is the fourth time that a Technion team has won a gold medal in this competition. The international competition is designed... Read MoreRead more about: Technion team won a gold medal in the international iGEM competition
The European Union (EU) has awarded the international NanoPack consortium €7.7 million to develop and demonstrate a solution for extending food shelf life by using novel antimicrobial surfaces. NanoPack aims to develop and demonstrate state-of-the-art antimicrobial packaging solutions for perishable... Read MoreRead more about: EU Awards €7.7 Million to NanoPack Project to Introduce Nanotechnology-Based Antimicrobial Packaging to Enhance Food Safety and Reduce Waste