November 2021
BIU has announced a new $75 million, comprehensive program to help transform diabetes care in the region and spur innovations in treatment and prevention world-wide.
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October 2021
Combining biology with machine learning, a new treatment developed at Bar-Ilan focuses on destroying cancer cells without endangering healthy cells.
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June 2021
Read this highlight package of all the many milestones and achievements generated at Bar-Ilan over the past year. We found innovative methods to keep our students educated and to continue with remarkable breakthroughs in our laboratories.
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December 2020
The Israeli government awarded a Certificate of Appreciation to Keilim Shluvim, Bar-Ilan’s extraordinary program that uses music to foster communication between music students and autistic kids, at-risk teens, and other marginalized populations.
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June 2, 2020
The tunnel is equipped with an automated aerosol spray system which quickly disinfects individuals, clothes and potentially contaminated belongings.
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May 27, 2020
For many Jewish day schools across America, the transition from educating our children in physical classrooms to virtual ones has been seamless due to the Lookstein Virtual Jewish Academy at Bar-Ilan.
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March 2020
Ran Kremer, a Master’s student in electrical engineering at Bar-Ilan University, shows how the Kalman filter can accurately predict the worldwide spread of coronavirus.
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March 2020
An Israeli startup will donate around 120,000 masks made with an anti-pathogen, anti-bacterial fabric
that could help stop the spread of coronavirus.
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February 2020
Using a new technology developed by Dr. Amos Danielli, of the Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, saliva tests can be analyzed within 15 minutes.
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March 19, 2020
A letter from Prof. Arie Zaban, President of Bar-Ilan University, about the Coronavirus and the status of the University at this time.
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December 2018
Gedanken has devised a unique patent-pending microwave-based process to convert biomass to biofuels. “It is hoped that this will be the replacement for fossil oil in the future,” says the BIU scientist, named as one of Israel’s most highly cited researchers.
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December 2018
Kaminka works his high-tech magic in the robotics and artificial intelligence lab of the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan. Some of his robotic programming is employed by the IDF in patrolling the dangerous borders and tunnels of the Gaza strip.
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December 2018
How do we prevent catastrophes from plaguing us in the future? The answer lies in “network science,” and the man at the forefront of this monumental task for Israel is Dr. Baruch Barzel, a top researcher, physicist, applied mathematician and network specialist at Bar-Ilan
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December 2016
Reporty, the world’s first free and easy-to-download video emergency app, was developed and is produced and marketed by a team of experts including a number of BIU grads.
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June 2015
In what promises to be a major breakthrough in the treatment of shingles, scientists at Bar-Ilan 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
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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May 2015
With cyber-terror becoming a growing threat to the national security of the US, Israel and the entire Western World, two Bar-Ilan 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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