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Technion Facts:
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is independently ranked as one of the world's most respected science and high technology institutions of higher learning.
Technion Distinguished Professors Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of "ubiquitin mediated protein degradation" in living cells.
Technion graduates compromise the majority of Israeli-educated scientists and engineers, and has provided over 70% of the country's founders and CEOs of high-tech industries.
The ingenuity of Technion alumni has brought Israel the highest concentration of high-tech start-up companies anywhere outside of the Silicon Valley.
90% of Israeli start-ups, which generate 31% of Israel’s GNP and 1/3 of its exports, are lead by Technion Graduates.
Recent Technion research breakthroughs:
A pill-sized camera, used around the world, was developed by a Technion graduate (at Given Imaging Ltd) and is used as a non invasive diagnostic tool for the digestive system.
A miniature robot for fail-proof spinal surgery, which was developed at Technion, has received FDA approval.
Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion's Faculty of Materials Engineering received universal acclaim for his discovery of Quasiperiodic Crystals - a new class of materials.
Prof. Moussa Youdim and John Finberg of the Faculty of Medicine together with Teva Pharmaceuticals developed Rasagiline - a new anti-Parkinson's disease drug.
A revolutionary gene therapy approach is being developed by Dr. Marcelle Machluff of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering via ultrasound waves. The system uses non-invasive cell engineering to bring painless treatments to victims of cancer and diabetes.
Technion is one of a handful of universities around the world supporting a student program to design, build, and launch its own satellite. (The Gurwin TechSat II microsatellite has successfully been in orbit since July 1998).
The Lempel/Ziv Algorithm, developed by Professors Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv has become an international standard for data compression, and a prestigious milestone of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
Technion was one of only ten research universities in the world authorized to receive U.S. federal research funds for stem cell research.
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