Welcome The delegation from Bauman Moscow State Technical University Tuesday, December 13 th, 2011 הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל Technion - Israel Institute

Welcome

The delegation from Bauman Moscow State Technical

University

Tuesday, December 13th , 2011

הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראלTechnion - Israel Institute of Technology

Coler - California Visitors Center & Visitors Unit

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Prof. Yuval ShohamDeputy Executive Vice President for Research

Prof. Yuval ShohamDeputy Executive Vice President for Research

December 13, 2011

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityBauman Moscow State Technical University

Bahai Temple on mount Carmel

Brief History

Founding the Nation

At the turn of the last century many had dreams

of a modern nation called Israel.

to realize the hope, Jews would need technical skills

Technion becomes Israel’s first university• 1901 – Fifth Zionist Congress calls for a Jewish

University• 1912 – Cornerstone is laid on slope of Mount Carmel

The almost-finished, empty building of The Technicom. 1914-1915

Architect : Alexander Baerwald

Presently the Israel National Museum of Science ,Technology and Space, Daniel and Matilde

Recanati Center

Realizing the Dream• 1924 - The Technion enrolls first class of

engineering students• 1938 - Civil engineering, architecture, industrial

engineering, 11 labs, nautical school• 1940s - Technion develops technologies for

Hagana• 1954 - Faculty of Aeronautical Engineering

founded

Dr. Albert Einstein, Pres. of first Technion Society on visit to Technion, 1923

“Israel can win the battle for survival only by developing

expert knowledge in technology.”

Albert Einstein

Shaping a Nation

• 1954 – Moving to the new 300-acre site of “greater” Technion

• Technion technology creates:• New Haifa-Tel Aviv coastal road• Electricity infrastructure• Telephone network• Industries• Rapid new immigrant housing

A new nation’s powerhouse

Present-day Technion Campus, Technion City, Haifa on Mount Carmel

Technion City: 1,325,000 square meters (327 acre) Built-up Area: 445,809 square meters Buildings 87 Student Dormitory Beds: 4,021 Faculties 18

Technion Today

• 18 Academic Departments• 40 Research Institutes and Departments• 49 Undergraduate Programs• 63 Graduate Programs• 12,000 Undergraduate Students• 2,000 Graduate Students • 60,000 Graduates to date• 580 Faculty Members• 300 acre campus, 85 buildings

Faculties and DepartmentsFaculties and Departments

10 Engineering Faculties

4 Exact Sciences Faculties

Medicine

Architecture and Town Planning

Education in Technology and Science Humanities and Arts (non-degree granting)

Exact Sciences FacultiesExact Sciences Faculties

Mathematics Physics Chemistry Biology

Technion Shapes the State of IsraelTechnion Shapes the State of Israel

Physical Infrastructure, Construction and Traffic

Architecture and Urban Planning

National Water Carrier, Irrigation Technology

Development of Traditional Industries, Food Engineering

Natural Resources, Chemical Industry

Defense Industries, Aviation and Space Research

Micro-Electronics, Communications & High-Tech

Companies

Medicine and Life Sciences

Development of Futuristic Technologies

Timeline

• 1960s – Microelectronics research

• 1969 – Medicine and Computer Science faculties opened

• 1980s-90s – Technion grads found and lead Israel’s high-tech boom

• 2000s – Centers opened for nanotechnology, life-sciences, futuristic defense, autonomous systems, energy, environmental engineering

Israeli Hi-Tech Success: A Synergy of…

Government policy R&D support

Defense Industry

Immigrants from former USSR

The Technion factor!!!

Some of Israel’s Visible Companies

Global Research Centers

Microsoft IBM HP Cisco Systems Motorola GE Siemens Applied Materials Qualcom Intel Google Yahoo,…

Companies which have established research centers in Israel include:

Our Alumni

Israel’s Most Valuable Resource

• 70,000 graduates• 70% of Israeli-educated engineers• Created Israel’s industrial infrastructure• Reinforced Israel’s defense capabilities• Pioneered technology-based industries

Israel has become a second silicon valley

First Nobel Prize in Science for Israel

2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Technion Professors -

Avram Hershko

Aaron Ciechanover

Prof. Irwin Rose of the USA

For the discovery of

“ubiquitin-mediated protein

degradation”

Ubiquitin – Nobel Prize DiscoveryUbiquitin – Nobel Prize Discovery

Nobel Laureates: Professors Hershko and Ciechanover

Ubiquitin labels unwanted proteins for destruction.

We now understand how the cell controls a number of important biochemical processes:

Cell life cycle Quality control of newly-produced proteins DNA repair Gene transcription Immune defense function

An important area of research for developing new drugs against

various diseases (Velcade - for the treatment of bone marrow

cancer)

Landmark Achievements

Lempel-Ziv Algorithm

Used to condense information in almost every computer

TechSat

Technion research satellite launched in 1998

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Abraham_Lempel.JPG

Azilect/ Agilect (Rasagiline)

Developed by Teva Pharmaceuticals in cooperation with Prof. Moussa Youdim and Prof. John Finberg

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive condition that involves a gradual loss of nerve cell function in the brain. The nerve cells that are specifically affected are those that control body movement

~ 4 million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's disease; it affects approximately 2-4% of the population over the age of 60, 1-2% in the general population

Agilect®/Azilect®- Azilect® was launched in Israel in March 2005

An anti-Parkinson's disease drug

Technion- Israel Institute of Technology


Large Scale Research Programs

Nanotechnology $ 90M Life Sciences and Engineering $ 50M Energy* $ 50M Autonomous Systems* $ 25M NanoMed – planning stages $ 50M+

* Partially funded

The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute

Continued…

Management Committee

Industry

Campus wide Multidisciplinary Activity

Graduate Program

Port to Industry and Academia

Other Academic Institutes

International Scientific

Advisory Committee

Nanomaterials

Nanomechanics Nanoelectronics

Nanooptics

Nanofluidics

Bio-nano interface

14 FacultiesAerospace Eng., Biology, Biomedical Eng., Biotechnology & Food Eng., Chemical Eng., Chemistry, Civil & Environmental Eng., Computer Science, Electrical Eng., Materials Eng., Math, Mechanical Eng., Medicine, Physics

Head: Prof. Yeshayahu (Ishi) Talmon (Chem. Eng.)

Head: Prof. Yuval Shoham (Biotechnology & Food Engineering)

Lorry Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering

Understanding information processing and networks in biological systemsTissue engineering and biomaterialsGenomics, proteomics and bioinformaticsBioprocess engineeringImaging: from complex molecules to cells within living animals


Storage & Conversion• Batteries• Fuel Cells

Energy Conservation• Energy Savings Technologies• Efficient Buildings

Alternative Fuels• Non-Carbon Fuels• Biomass-Based Fuels• Hydrogen Technology

Renewable Sources• Photovoltaics• Wind Power• Solar Thermal

The Technion Energy Program – Key Areas

Head: Dist. Prof. Danny Weihs (Aerospace Engineering)

The Technion Autonomous Systems Program (TASP)

Research Collaboration

Johnson & Johnson: A call for proposals resulted in the awarding of $200,000 for funding four projects at about $50,000 per project. So far, three such project grants have been approved . We are currently evaluating a new set of project submissions.

IIBMST:International Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology.An international program for collaboration between 3 institutes: Technion, Upstate Medical Univ. in Syracuse N.Y. and National Cheng Kung Univ. in Taiwan.

Northeastern University: A call went out for proposals and two grants were awarded. This is a five-year program, made possible by Dr. Robert Shillman's generous $0.5 m. gift.


Singapore:A S$20M research cooperation agreement was signed 18 months ago with: o Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF)o Singapore Ministry of Educationo 2 universities in Singapore:

Nanyang Technical University National University of Singapore.

Research activity in the field of tissue engineering began in October 2009. The project operates to the satisfaction of both parties and a technology transfer process has been initiated.



Umbrella Symposia: Aachen - Jülich - Technion Annual symposium in one of the institutes.

In January 2010 the Symposium took place in Jülich on the topic of: “Modeling & Simulation in Medicine, Engineering & Science”CFP for Joint research projects on these topics. This year’s symposium took place in RWTH Aachen in June 2011, the topic:“Modeling and Simulation with emphasis on HPC and Grid Computing”This year the 25th anniversary of the umbrella cooperation between Israel and Germany in the various fields of science was celebrated.

Next year’s Symposium will take place at the Technion in March 2012 on the topic of: “Sustainable Urban Development”.

Research Venues

Environment and Health Fund:The Technion was awarded funding from the Foundation for Environmental Health in the amount of $1 m. for 5 years for the purpose of establishing a Center of Excellence: "From Environmental Stressors through Risk Assessment to Health Outcomes". This is a joint center for researchers from various Technion faculties run by the Faculty for Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine. The center began operating in October 2010.

Wolfson Foundation:The Energy Project is proceeding to fund equipment with a donation of £330,000 from the Wolfson Foundation approved last year.

More Collaborations

Pennsylvania State University (Industrial Engineering & Management)

Washington University

Hasso Platner Institute (Computer Science & Electrical Engineering)

Erlangen (Computer Science)


Currently runs 4 projects:A biomimetic surgical tissue adhesive

A cancer diagnosis system based on

breath samples

2 experimental drugs:A cardio protective molecule

A unique anti-cancer compound

2009 budget: $4.25M, same as in 2008

AMITAlfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Development

at the Technion

AMIT SPINOFF: SEALANTIS

Biomimetic adhesives for medical applications:The remarkable ability of algae to attach to wet solid Surface finding a material that will have similar capabilities yet its commercial production will not relyon extracting natural materials.

Compounds were mainly selected due to their chemical similarity to the components of the natural algae glue.

Assoc. Prof. Havazelet Bianco-Peled, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technion


Thank You!

Recent Achievements

Recent Achievements

Array of sensors based on gold nanoparticles can rapidly distinguish the breath of lung cancer patients from the breath of healthy individuals in an atmosphere of high humidity.

Recent Achievements

Spin symmetry breaking effect in plasmonic nanoscale structures due to spin−orbit interaction is presented.

Due to this effect, a spin-controlled enhanced transmission through a coaxial nanoaperture was achieved .A wide spectrum of plasmonic nano

Inert quantum dots were introduced into fish epithelial cells to study their motion. Fluid flow is directed from the cell body towards the leading edge. This forward-directed flow is driven by increased hydrostatic pressure generated at the rear of the cell by myosin contraction. A physical model for fluid pressure and flow in moving cells accounts for the experimental data.

Recent Achievements

Experimental research on decision making among humans reveals a significant difference between decisions based on description and those based on experience

Recent Achievements

Science 323, 617 (2009)

Preparation of single nanocrystals of platinum that are 2 to 3 nanometers in diameter. The nano-crystals exhibit an excellent colloidal stability, as well as high catalytic activity in hydrogenation reactions in the aqueous phase

Recent Achievements

a new unifying principle emerges as to how multi-polar neurons in the brain integrate synaptic information.

Recent Achievements

Recent Achievements

As expected highly active individual synapses undergo extensive remodeling over time. However, we also observed, that synaptic remodeling continues at very significant rates even when network activity is completely blocked. Our findings thus indicate that the capacity of synapses to preserve their specific properties might be more limited than previously thought, raising intriguing questions about the long-term reliability of individual synapses.

Recent Achievements

we successfully generated a beating human cardiac muscle containing an endothelial network, by co-culturing human embryonic stem cell–derived-cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells within biodegradable scaffolds. Such muscle-constructs could contribute significantly to the emerging discipline of cardiovascular regenerative medicine as well as to the study of the important role of tissue vascularization.


Over 113 faculty and 300 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows conduct vigorous research in

Nanoelectronics

Nanooptics

Nanomaterials

Nanomechanics

…and the interface between these fields and life sciences.

Head: Prof. Yeshayahu (Ishi) Talmon (Chem. Eng.)


Intel, Tower Semiconductors, Applied Materials IBM, Microsoft

Teva, Johnson & Johnson

Elbit, Rafael, IAI

Iscar, GM

+ CONSORTIA • Academy+Industry with government help

Some Industry-Funded Research

Summary

Trained a cadre of engineers who established and developed the country’s infrastructure, traditional chemical and heavy industries.

Spearheaded the hi tech revolution by providing the necessary manpower and knowledge in microelectronics.

Providing the manpower and know-how to the Israeli aircraft and other defense related industries.

Specific achievements such as the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, Schechtminite, the Nobel discovery, Azilect.

Various affirmative action programs targeted at integrating sectors of Israeli society into the scientific and engineering mainstream

Stem Cell Research – Itskovitz, Gepstein

Breakthrough in using human embryonic stem cells in theformation of human heart cells and pancreatic cells for insulin production

Nanotechnology– Sivan, Braun, Eichen

Researchers create electrical circuits based on biological molecules (DNA)


Some Recent Research Achievements

Observing the Magnus effect in light; potentially opening a new avenue for controlling light in nanometer-scale optical devices Prof. Erez Hasman, Dr. Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Dr. Vladimir Kleiner, Mr. Avi Niv (Mechanical Eng., Technion)


Developing a method of predicting and controlling the immune system’s ability to react against cancer cells Prof. Yoram Reiter, Mr. Kfir Oved, Dr. Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Martin Ackerman (Biology, Technion) Dr. Jacob Schachter, Dr. Michal Besser (Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer) Prof. Uri Alon, Mr. Eran Eden (Weizmann Institute)


Breast Cancer tumor detection and elimination by a targeted gallium corrole Prof. Zeev Gross (Chemistry, Technion), Prof. Michael Aviram (Medicine, Technion), Dr. Atif Mahammed, (Chemistry, Technion) Cooperation with researchers: Ceders-Sinai Medical Center and Caltech

Producing and characterizing platinum crystalline nanoparticles of 2 to 3 nanometers in diameter Prof. Yeshayahu Talmon (Chemical Eng., Technion) Dr. Yaron Kauffmann (Materials Eng., Technion) Prof. Matthias Ballauff, Mr. Marc Schrinner (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

Experimental research on decision-making among humans reveals a significant difference between decisions based on description and those based on experience Prof. Ido Erev (Industrial Eng. & Management, Technion) Mr. Arnon Lotem (Tel Aviv University) Mr. Sharoni Shafir (Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot, Hebrew University)



A method of eliminating diffraction (which causes images carried by light rays to lose their sharpness) in a special thermal atomic medium Prof. Amiram Ron, Mr. Ofer Firstenberg, Dr. Moshe Shuker (Physics, Technion) Prof. Nir Davidson (Weizmann Institute)



Discovery: why an important anticancer drug (methotrexate – MTX) does not work on a large number of Leukemia patients Prof. Yehuda Assaraf, Dr. Michal Stark (Biology, Technion)

“Breaking” the limitations of the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem, and using “holes” in spectrum to significantly lessen the sampling rate without damaging the signal Prof. Yonina Eldar, Mr. Moshe Mishali (Electrical Eng., Technion)



A unified theory and a direct observation of two mutual phenomena: a spin-dependent deflection (the spin Hall effect) of photons and the precession of the Stokes vector along the coiled ray trajectory of classical geometrical optics. The results may have promising applications in nano-optics and can be immediately extrapolated to the evolution of mass-less particles in a variety of physical systems.

Nature photonics Vol 2, December 2008

Recent Achievements

Experimentally demonstrate a new technique to eliminate the paraxial diffraction and the diffusion of slow light, regardless of its position and shape.

Recent Achievements

Spin symmetry breaking effect in plasmonic nanoscale structures due to spin−orbit interaction is presented.

Due to this effect, we achieved a spin-controlled enhanced transmission through a coaxial nanoaperture.A wide spectrum of plasmonic nano

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Welcome The delegation from Bauman Moscow State Technical University Tuesday, December 13 th, 2011 הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל Technion - Israel Institute