As a kid, my dream was to found a race car company. I was amazed by their shapes. But beyond beauty, form serves function through the science of aerodynamics. As a scientist today, I discuss how my laboratory is leveraging aerodynamics to explore drug delivery to the lungs and how race cars are my driver for new paradigm shifts in pulmonary therapy. Josué Sznitman (BSc, MIT 2002; Dr. Sc., ETH Zurich 2008) is a Swiss, French and Israeli national. He joined the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in 2010 and is currently a tenured Associate Professor of biomedical engineering focusing on respiratory physiology and drug delivery to the lungs. Sznitman has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and is a co-inventor on several patents. Among his accolades, he was awarded the Young Investigator Award (2015) by the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) for a researcher under the age of 40 and most recently the 2018 Emerging Scientist Award in Drug Delivery to the Lungs (The Aerosol Society, UK). He is the co-founder of Gradtrain Ltd., an online education consultancy. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Published by: https://youtu.be/7IDfqlvWSU8

 

Technion and Rambam Health Care Campus scientists present a novel method for testing over 60 patients simultaneously Researchers at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Rambam Health Care Campus have successfully tested a method that will dramatically increase the current COVID-19 testing capacity using existing available resources. This method, known as pooling, enables simultaneous testing of dozens of samples. Its implementation has the potential to greatly accelerate the rate of testing and detection of COVID-19 infected patients in the population.

Published by: https://youtu.be/vxs11ryS9Dg

Film made by BBC StoryWorks for the International Association of Universities, Aiming Higher Initiative.

The series of films highlight how universities are shaping sustainable, democratic societies, and helping to tackle some of the biggest challenges those societies face.

Original video by Technion: https://youtu.be/KBZZwHZuMzs

“The essential ingredient is the people of Israel – the young men and women who seem motivated, competent and well-trained to invent, to design and to build tools for Israel’s future. These are the people of Technion.”
Kirk Douglas (1916 – 2020).

In loving memory of Kirk Douglas, a star of Hollywood’s golden age and a true Technion friend and supporter who died on Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, at the beautiful age of 103.

In honour of his deep friendship, Douglas won the Albert Einstein Award from the American Technion Society (ATS) in 1983.
May he rest in peace.

Original video by Technion: https://youtu.be/1NnFJ1H3RiE

Architecture and Town Planning Prof. Daniel Orenstein’s Socio-Ecological System’s Research group is tackling environmental challenges from ecological disaster to Israel’s first eco-friendly wine. The team recently advised Israel’s Tabor Winery on environmentally friendly viticulture – L’Chaim!

Original video: https://youtu.be/SqnfNIUHBto
Published by Technion

Prof. Hossam Haick of Technion’s Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering presents SNIFFPHONE, a Horizon 2020 EU project that has harnessed nanotechnology, (bio)chemistry, materials engineering, process engineering, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and medicine to develop and test a miniaturized system that relies on an artificially intelligent nanoarray for an inexpensive, fast, non-invasive detection of gastric cancer via exhaled breath.

Original video: https://youtu.be/kFShsK1j_Zw
Published by Technion
Website: https://www.sniffphone.eu

“If you have faith in something and you want to achieve something, you should just close your eyes, go straight, and get it.” Thank you to our sponsor Kamin Health (http://JewintheCity.com)

Director of Photography – Elie Gabor elie(at)eliecreative.com
Producer – Seth Feldman