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2024
Our two outstanding Ph.D. students, Xin and Kayan, presentation at the Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Research Conference.
Congratulations to our new Ph.D. student, Liza Dahan! We’re wishing you all the best with your research.
Our amazing Kayan presented her research on enhancing the performance of porous silicon biosensors at the Jacobs Graduate Research Day.
We are so proud of our 2 amazing Ph.D. students Xin and Kayan on their presentation at the PSST 13th edition of the Porous Semiconductors-Science and Technology Conference.
SafeWax team starts the 2nd day of the consortium meeting with a visit at BASF Agricultural Solutions for joint discussions on sustainable agriculture.
Our lab and Bahnemann Lab at Leibnizhaus presenting “Nanotechnologies for detecting and mitigating antimicrobial resistnat becteria”
Congratulations to our amazing Hanan for winning the Jacobs Fellowship for Outstanding MSc students!
It was a pleasure hosting an exceptional student from Dalyat al-Karmel in our lab, teaching them about biomimicry and biosensors. Thanks, Kayan and Hanan, for being part of this amazing project.
Farewell to Dr. Ofer, who successfully completed his doctoral journey in the lab and is now embarking on his postdoc adventure abroad. In honor of his departure, we organized a pasta workshop, and it was truly delicious. We’ll miss you, Ofer!
2023
Congratulations to Ofer– our new Ph.D. graduate.
Congratulations to Chris – our new Ph.D. graduate.
July 20, 2023.
Congratulations to Xin for winning the prestigious 2022 Outstanding Article award from RSC Nanoscale Horizons.
June 13, 2023.
The SMART project has been successfully completed!
Congratulations to Liza – our outstanding student winning the excellent Jacobs scholarship.
January 25, 2023.
2020
Congratulations to Sofi – our new Ph.D. graduate
Sofi has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, entitled: “Porous Silicon Biosensors for Protein Targets: Modelling and Sensitivity Enhancement”. Sofi has now dual doctorate degrees, from both the Technion and the University of Hannover.
Dr. Arshavsky-Graham – Congrats! We are proud!
Congratulations Ofer for being awarded the prestigious Azrieli Graduate Studies Fellowship. This Fellowship is awarded on the basis of outstanding academic merit and exceptional personal achievements.
Ester Segal is among the “Leading Israeli Women In Biotech Industry”
Israeli Researchers Find Way to Deliver Medications to Brain Inhibiting Alzheimer’s Disease
2019
Bringing Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) to the Community
NanoPack’s Active Food Packaging extends yellow cheese shelf life by up to 50%
Prof. Segal, winner of the 2019 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award
2018
Prof. Ester Segal judges at Calcalist’s FoodTech Innovation Competition
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3744035,00.html
NanoPack project headed by Prof. Ester Segal is named as the Sustainability Award 2018 Finalist
https://packagingeurope.com/24-finalists-sustainability-awards-2018-packaging/
NanoPack presents at the Angua FoodTech Conference
https://packagingeurope.com/nanopack-to-present-novel-food-packaging-at-anuga-foodtec/
2017
The Segal Group Wins Discovery Award as Part of Nesta’s £10 Million Longitude Prize
Team Prismatix developed a rapid antibiotic susceptibility test, winning an international prize as part of Nesta’s Longitude Prize competition
Read more…
Team Prismatix: Prof. Ester Segal, Heidi Leonard and Liran Holtzman from the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion (upper panel, left to right). Prof. Leigh Canham from the University of Birmingham, Prof. Ofer Nativ and Prof. Sarel Halachmi from the Department of Urology at Bnai Zion Medical Center (Lower panel)
Some more articles about the Segal group winning the prestigious UK award for antibiotic resistance research:
https://longitudeprize.org/blog-post/qa-making-30-minute-test-is-our-challenge
https://www.israel21c.org/israelis-win-uk-award-for-antibiotic-resistance-research/
https://www.lepoint.fr/science/en-pointe-contre-le-cancer-13-12-2017-2179200_25.php
NanoPack is named among the “10 Israeli innovations that will outsmart superbugs”
https://www.israel21c.org/10-israeli-innovations-that-will-outsmart-superbugs/
Professor Ester Segal as a keynote speaker at the 31st EFFoST International Conference
NanoPack Project headed by Prof. Ester Segal receives €7.7 million by the EU
Read more:
http://eipa.eu.com/publicaffairs/tag/ester-segal/
https://www.technion.ac.il/en/2017/01/nanopack-for-safe-food-packaging/
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4923721,00.html
https://www.foodengineeringmag.com/articles/96443-eu-awards-77m-to-nanopack-project-to-create-antimicrobial-packaging
More in Hebrew:
Congratulations to our recent five PhD graduates: Dr. Elena Tenenbaum, Dr. Rita Vilensky,
Dr. Rotem Shemesh, Dr. Yonit Bussi, and Dr. Katharina Urmann
EU Awards €7.7 Million to NanoPack Project led by Prof. Segal
To read the full article
2016
Profile article of Prof. Ester Segal at Yedioth Ahronoth Newspaper (Hebrew)
https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4758061,00.html
Interview with Prof. Ester Segal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXiKFZf98Q
Antimicrobial food packaging developed at the Segal Lab (Hebrew)
https://www.hayadan.org.il/nano-keep-the-food-fresh-2701165
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/390831
21 October 2016 (Hannover, Germany)
Congratulations to Katharina – our new Ph.D. graduate
Katharina has successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled: “Aptamer-based optical biosensors”. Katharina has now dual doctorate degrees, from both the Technion and the University of Hannover.
Dr. Urmann – Congrats! We are proud!
27 October 2016 (Greece)
Sofi wins the Young Researcher Award at the Israel-Greece Joint Meeting on Nanotechnology and BioNanosciences. Sofi’s presentation on “Development of a Label-free Optical Biosensor for Early Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer” was recognized as the Best Poster of the conference.
Well done Sofi!
Prof. Ester Segal wins the Best Talk of PSST 2016 Conference Prize
P
rof. Ester Segal presentation on “1,000-fold sensitivity enhancement of porous Si biosensors for nucleic acid detection” was selected as the Best Talk of the PSST 2016 (Porous Semiconductors – Science and Technology). This is the second time in a row that Prof. Segal wins the prize. The series of PSST Conferences organized and held in Spain since 1998 is a unique and singular international scientific experience dedicated to porous semiconductors and promotion of their use in electronics, sensing, chemical and photochemical applications as well as in the life sciences.
10 March, 2016
Prof. Ester Segal and Dr. Nadav Ben Dov were announced as winners of the Technion Innovation Award on their research:
The Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Awards are presented to researchers for outstanding innovative projects with commercial potential. March 2016
2 March, 2016
Prof. Ester Segal was announced as the winner of the Daniel Shiran Memorial Research Prize for outstanding research in biomedicine.
1 March, 2016
2015
Congratulations to Rita – our new Ph.D. graduate
Rita has successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled: Development of Optical Biosensors and their Integration in Lab-on-a-chip Systems.
On a perfect timing, Rita’s paper was featured on the cover of the Journal Advanced Functional Materials.
Dr. Vileneski – Congrats! We are proud!
15 December, 2015
RESFOOD project is featured in “newFOOD” magazine.
Read more about our novel techniques for rapid detection and identification of microbial contaminations.
26 August, 2015
Our work on porous silicon for cancer therapy is published in Nature Communications
Our work on porous silicon for cancer therapy is 
published in Nature Communications. Read the article.
25 August, 2015
Congratulations to Giorgi – our new Ph.D. graduate
Giorgi has successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled: Development of Optical Biosensors for Monitoring Proteins Activity.
Giorgi has already started working for a new startup company in the biomedical field.
Dr. Shtenberg – we are proud!
27 April, 2015
Prof. Ester Segal wins the prestigious Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education
Prof. Ester Segal, winner of the 2014 Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education.
This is the fourth year in a row that the prestigious prize has been awarded: “In appreciation of faculty members, who set an example through their endless contributions to teaching and learning and for their efforts to improve student involvement and sense of belonging to the Technion.”
17 February, 2015
2014
Congratulations to Adi Balter – our new PhD graduate
Adi has successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled: Nano-Structured Porous Silicon Scaffolds for Controlled Delivery of Antineoplastic Drugs.
Adi is already working for a new startup company in the field of agrobiotechnology.
21 October, 2014
Our group presents at the 2014 Researchers’ Night event
Each year, the Technion invites the public to participate in the Researchers’ Night – a celebration of science and research for the whole family, sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space and the European Union. Researchers’ Night takes place in some 300 cities throughout Europe and Israel. This year’s theme was water sciences.
Prof. Segal group has set up an impresive booth, presenting our technologies for monitoring and identification of different types of contaminations in water. During the event, our booth was also visited by the Technion’s president and the Israeli Minister of Science and Technology. Moreover, in this event, Prof. Ester Segal made a presentation focusing on the development of rapid detection techniques for microbial pathogens.
19 September, 2014
Our work is featured in the July 2014 issue of Analyst
Congratulations to Guy – our new PhD graduate
Today Guy has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Highly-Tunable Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Nanostructures: A New Approach for Controlled Structure and Properties” and now he is more than ready to contribute to the industry.
28 April, 2014
Prof. Ester Segal receives the Henry Taub Award for Academic Excellence
Ester will receive the prestigious prize during the upcoming annual meeting of Technion’s Board of Governors.
27 March, 2014
Prof. Ester Segal wins the Best Talk of PSST 2014 Conference Prize
Prof. Ester Segal presentation on “Tracking and Unraveling the Erosion Mechanism of Nanostructured Porous Si Carriers in Neoplastic State” was selected as the Best Talk of the PSST 2014 (Porous Semiconductors – Science and Technology). The series of PSST Conferences organized and held in Spain since 1998 is a unique and singular international scientific experience dedicated to porous semiconductors and promotion of their use in electronics, sensing, chemical and photochemical applications as well as in the life sciences.
14 March, 2014
Giorgi Shtenberg wins the Russell Berrie Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students
wins the Russell Berrie Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students. The award is administered by the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute to acknowledge excellence in nanotechnology and nano-sciences related research.
12 February, 2014
2013
Prof. Ester Segal was promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure
The Technion Senate committees have voted in favor of conferring Dr. Ester Segal tenure and promotion to the rank of an associate professor.
23 December, 2013
Katharina Urmann wins Karl-Schügerl-Preis
Katharina Urmann wins the second prize in the Karl-Schügerl-Preis for her Master thesis on “Aptamer-based optical sensors”. The prize is awaeded for young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of biotechnology. Katharina will recieve the prestigious award on June 28th at Leibniz Universität Hannover.
28 June, 2013
Graduation of Naama Massad-Ivanir
Congratulations to our 2013 Ph.D. graduate – Dr. Naama Massad-Ivanir. We are proud to announce that Naama is our first Ph.D. graduate. She was hooded on Monday, May 27. Naama thesis title is: “Development and characterization of porous Si/hydrogel hybrids for biosensing applications“.
Giorgi Shtenberg, Guy Mechrez and Adi Tzur-Balter win the Russell Berrie Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students
The award is administered by the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute to acknowledge excellence in nanotechnology and nano-sciences related research.
Guy and Adi are also nominated for the RBNI prize.
1 February, 2013
2012
Naama Massad-Ivanir wins 1st place award for her oral presentation at the MRS Membrane Symposium – 2012 MRS Fall Meeting Boston
Naama wins the 1st place ($500 award) for best oral presentation on “Rapid Detection of Bacteria by `Direct-cell-capture’ onto 2D Lamellar Macro-porous Silicon Photonic Crystal Gratings” at the MRS Symposium: Membrane Material Platforms and Concepts for Energy, Environment, and Medical Applications,http://www.mrs.org/f12-program-t/
27 December, 2012
Naama Massad-Ivanir and Guy Mechrez present their PhD research at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston November, 2012
Naama will present her work on “Rapid Detection of Bacteria by `Direct-cell-capture’ onto 2D Lamellar Macro-porous Silicon Photonic Crystal Gratings” at Symposium T: Membranes for Biomedical Applications and Bioseparations.
Guy will present a poster focused on “Highly-tunable Polymer/CNTs Nanostructures: A Rapid and Facile Approach for Controlled Architecture and Composition”. See our recent paper for more details: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/mz300145a
1 November, 2012
Naama Massad-Ivanir and Adi Tzur-Balter win the Russell Berrie Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students.
The award is administered by the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute to acknowledge excellence in nanotechnology and nano-sciences related research.
http://rbni.technion.ac.il/?cmd=students.292
1 April, 2012
Guy Mechrez wins best poster award at the NanoIsrael 2012 conference
Guy Mechrez wins best poster award at the NanoIsrael 2012conference. Guy was presented with the “Best Poster Award” for his work on “ACRYLIC LATEX-MODIFIED MWNT NETWORKS AND NANOCOMPOSITES” at the recent NanoIsrael 2012Conference held in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 26 – 27, 2012.
28 March, 2012
Giorgi Shtenberg won the Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Excellence Scholarship Award, Technion.
Giorgi received this scholarship for his excellence in both studies and research.
1 March, 2012
2011
Naama Massad-Ivanir was awarded with the prestigious fellowship.
Naama Massad-Ivanir was awarded with 
the prestigious fellowship for the Promotion of Women in Science and Technology administered by the Israeli Ministry of Science. Out of 89 applications submitted to the Israeli Ministry of Science for the prestigious fellowship, Naama was selected to receive the award for her research effort is to design and construct a label-free miniaturized biosensing platform for the detection and identification of microbial pathogens that could be deployed for in-field and rapid analysis of water.
9 December, 2011