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Meet Gal Kaminka

December 2017

Prof. Kaminka and his team have been developing award-winning technology that is protecting Israeli citizens and keeping IDF soldiers from harm’s way.

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Playing with SQUIDs

August 17, 2017

Why was a nice Jewish boy from Teaneck handling SQUIDs for seven weeks this summer? Don’t worry. He wasn’t working with the decidedly non-kosher shellfish. Ari Krischer was working in Dr. Beena Kalisky’s lab at Bar-Ilan, testing superconducting quantum interference devices.

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Leading Car Battery Research

May 2015

Bar-Ilan 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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DNA Robots

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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Fighting Sight and Hearing Loss

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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Zalevsky Inventions

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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Connected Vehicles

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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Fixler Detecting Cancer with Gold

October 2014

Using gold particles as a diagnostic tool, Dr. Dror Fixler and his team at the Advanced Light Microscopy Laboratory at BIU have created a non-invasive optical system to detect cancer of the head, neck, tongue and throat. It has proven itself during its first human tests. 

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Zaban Electric Car Battery Technology

October 2014

The Israeli start-up company Phinergy is relying on technology developed by BIU’s Prof. Arie Zaban to create an affordable, long-lasting battery for electric cars. Zaban and his team are partnering with Phinergy to change the base on which the battery operates through contact of aluminum with oxygen and water.

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BIU Lens To Offer Tactile Sight For The Blind

May 2014

Prof. Zeev Zalevsky, head of the Electro-Optics study program at Bar-Ilan’s Faculty of Engineering, has developed a bionic contact lens that has tremendous potential to enable the blind to see. It processes digital images and translates them into tactile sensations, allowing him or her to form a picture.

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BIU Battery Pioneer Awarded

March 2014

Israel’s most well-known battery scientist, Professor Doron Aurbach of Bar-Ilan University, was awarded the prestigious International Battery Association (IBA) Yeager Award on March 3rd, 2014 for his work in advancing battery technology.

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Peres Hears About Research Breakthroughs at Gonda Brain Center

March 2014

A major highlight of President Shimon Peres’ recent visit to Bar-Ilan was seeing firsthand the cutting-edge research work taking place at the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, which has been generously supported by the Gonda Family through a gift to AFBIU.

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