2024
2/24: Our PhD students Alon Tzruya and Dror Fixler participated in Photonics West conference in San Fransisco, after won travel grants from SPIE for presenting our research in the conference. 2/24: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Alon Tzruya awarded the best talk for young researcher at the SPIE Photonics West conference, San-Francisco, 2024.
1/24: Dror Fixler awarded (again) for the President‘s International Fellowship Initiative award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). 1/24: Ariel was chosen to be Early Career Editor of Biophotonics Discovery SPIE Journal. 1/24: New ACS Omega paper: An Optical Method for Detection and Classification of Heavy Metal Contaminants in Water Using Iso-pathlength Point Characterization.
2023
12/23: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Yitzhak Weber for his wedding. 12/23: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Alon Tzruya awarded of SPIE Photonics West 2024 Student Conference Support Application. 12/23: Prof. Dror Fixler was elected to be Vice Dean of the faculty of Engineering.
11/23: Welcome: Shiran Arol Wiegand joined our Lab. 11/23: Our research got Helsinki and AMAR approvals with Prof. Eli Lev, Assuta Ashdod Medical Center. 11/23: Prof. Dror Fixler was chosen to be Associate Editor of Biophotonics Discovery SPIE Journal.
10/23: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Alon Tzruya awarded Bar-Ilan University president scholarship for Ph.D. students. 10/23: We pray for the safe return of Yitzhak Weber and Dror Fixler from the war. We are fine thanks god. Indeed, the situation here is very difficult. We hope and pray that it will be better soon. 10/23: New ACS Applied Bio Materials Journal paper: Bioimaging based on polyethyleneimine-coated carbon dots and gold nanoparticles for pH sensing and metal enhanced fluorescence.
9/23: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our students Channa Shapira, Alon Tzruya and Michal Katan got BINA excellence awards. 9/23: New Nanomaterials Journal paper: Probing Polarity and pH Sensitivity of Carbon Dots in Escherichia coli through Time-Resolved Fluorescence Analyses.
8/23: Congratulations to our Ph.D. fellow, Channa Shapira, for the birth of her son! 8/23: New Journal of Cosmetics, Dermatological Sciences and Applications (JCDSA) paper: A novel facial cream based on skin penetrable Hemp oil microparticles. 8/23: Welcome: Bar Atuar joined our Lab.
7/23: New ACS Omega paper: Detecting contaminants in water based on full scattering profile within the single scattering regime. 7/23: Congratulations to Dr. Marianna Beiderman for completing her Doctoral research in our lab and to Michal Katan for completing the B.Sc. The whole lab is proud of you. 7/23: New Cover ACS Omega paper: Detecting contaminants in water based on full scattering profile within the single scattering regime. 7/23: New Nanomaterials paper: Probing Polarity and pH Sensitivity of Carbon Dots in Escherichia coli through Time-Resolved Fluorescence Analyses.
6/23: Dror Fixler was invited, as part of a visit by the "Leaders in the Academy" group of the National Academy of Sciences, to visit Switzerland at EPFL and the University of Zurich. 6/23: New grant. We got Mafat grant: improving the system for remote sensing of fishing nets in sea. 6/23: New grant: we got the 2nd period of Magnet Grant: Israel Generic BioChip Technology Consortium.
5/23: New Journal of Biomedical Optics paper: Imaging the rotational mobility of carbon-dot gold nanoparticle conjugates using frequency domain wide-field time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy. 5/23: Congratulations to Ariel Ashkenazy for beginning accepted of The Jyväskylä Summer School and presenting there a poster.
4/23: New Journal of Biophotonics paper: Fluorescence attenuated by a thick scattering medium: Theory, simulations and experiments. 4/23: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our students Dr. Shweta Pawar and Michal Katan won STSM application from COST Action CA21159.
3/23: New grant. We are proud to share that our lab has won Ministry of Health Research Grant, for our research project: "Designing a contrast material made of gold nano particles coated with the hormone PMSG for the purpose of imaging follicles in the ovary". 3/23: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Shweta Pawar for her wedding. 3/23: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Yitzchak Weber awarded the best project of the 4th year at the Faculty of Engineering 2022.
2/23: New Biosensors paper: Magnetite-Based Biosensors and Molecular Logic Gates: From Magnetite Synthesis to Application. 2/23: New Nanomaterials paper: Recent Advances in the Spintronic Application of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials. 2/23: Extremely proud of our Master students Alon Zroya and Yitzchak Weber, and our PhD student Chana Shapira, for the excellent talks they gave at the Annual BINA BIU conference and getting the crowd favorite award!
1/23: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Chana Shapira awarded the best talk for young researcher at the SPIE Photonics West conference, San-Francisco, 2023. 1/23: Our lab has recently attended Photonics West conference. One talk by Chana Shapira, and posters, including those presented by our group: Gilad Yahav and Shweta Pawar. 1/23: New International Journal of Molecular Sciences paper: Characterization of Diabetic Retinopathy in Two Mouse Models and Response to a Single Injection of Anti-Vascular Ednothelial Growth Factor, Collaboration with Prof. Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen.
2022
12/22: Kudos to our Post Doc, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students Dr. Shweta Pawar, Ariel Ashkenazy, Gilad Yahav and Channa Shapira for presenting at OASIS. 12/22: New grant. We are proud to share that our lab has won Ministry of Health Research Grant, for our research project: " Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin (PMSG) coated gold nano particles as contrast agents for non-targeted imaging of the follicular apparatus".
11/22: New IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics paper: Deep Tattoo Ink Depth Profiling in Ex Vivo Porcine Skin Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy. 11/22: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Dr. Hamootal Duadi for receiving the outstanding researcher of the Israeli bio-chip consortium. 11/22: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Inbar Yariv and Gilad Yahav on the birth of their sons.
10/22: New J. Pers. Med. paper: Trace Elements in Tears: Comparison of Rural and Urban Populations Using Particle Induced X-ray Emission. 10/22: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Ariel Ashkenazy for winning the Best poster award at Bar-Ilan faculty of Engineering annual meeting. Kudos to our Ph.D. and M.Sc. students Channa Shapira, Michal Katan, Yitzchak Weber for presenting as well. 10/22: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our Student Channa Shapira got the KLA-BINA prize for outstanding students. 10/22: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our students Channa Shapira and Ariel Ashkenazy got BINA excellence awards.
9/22: Welcome: Michal Katan and Yitzchak Weber joined our Lab. 9/22: Amazing attention and attraction to our ACS Nano paper: The Jerusalem Post, Phys.Org, The Media Line, Nano Magazine, i24 News in English and French, The Jewish Press, Aurora, ANSA (Italy), Noticias de Israel, TPS, Israel Economico, JForum, World Israel News, Enlace Judio (Mexico) and more. The research received nearly 200 shares and 1,000 likes on The Jerusalem Post’s Facebook account. 9/22: Prof. Fixler was hosted for an engaging visit at Harvard Business School and the BROAD Institute. The visit was part of 8400 action.
8/22: New ACS Nano paper: Noninvasive Nanodiamond Skin Permeation Profiling Using a Phase Analysis Method: Ex Vivo Experiments. 8/22: Our paper Magnetite Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications in Optics and Nanophotonics selected as an Editor’s Choice in Materials journal. 8/22: New grant. We are proud and delighted to share that our lab has won a prestigious Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Research Grant, for our research project: "A new optical technique for investigating tissue depths information by full scattering profile". 8/22: Prof. Dror Fixler has been named by EU as the Israeli representative in the COST Action CA21159, Understanding interaction light - biological surfaces: possibility for new electronic materials and devices (PhoBioS). 8/22: Dr. Hamootal Duadi has been named by EU as the Israeli representative in the COST Action CA21121, European Network for the Mechanics of Matter at the Nano-Scale, MecaNano.
7/22: Our paper Magnetite Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications in Optics and Nanophotonics selected for Most Viewed Articles (April—June 2022) in Optics and Photonics in Materials journal. 7/22: Prof. Dror Fixler was elected to the Leadership in Academia program. 7/22: New IEEE Photonics paper: Measurement of the Second-Order Polarizability of Silver Nanoparticles with Reference-Free Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering for Entangled Photon Pair Interaction. 7/22: Welcome: Shoshana Erblich joined our Lab. Shoshana came from the Yeshiva University - New York, for a summer research program.
6/22: New ACS Omega paper: The design and use of gold nanoparticle-carbon dots hybrid for FLIM based IMPLICATION nano logic gate. 6/22: New ChemistrySelect paper: Boron-doped Carbon Dots with Surface Oxygen Functional Groups as a Highly Sensitive and Label-free Photoluminescence Probe for the Enhanced Detection of Mg2+ Ions, collaboration with Prof. Aharon Gedanken.
5/22: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our Student Channa Shapira got the Rector Excellence award. 5/22: New Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology (JCAD) paper: A Novel Facial Cream Based on Skin-penetrable Fibrillar Collagen Microparticles, collaboration with Prof. Rachel Lubart. 5/22: We are welcome our guests from all over Europe as part of COMULIS COST action.
3/22: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Channa Shapira got her Master degree (M.Sc.) with grade of 95! 3/22: New Materials paper: Magnetite Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications in Optics and Nanophotonics.
2/22: New Diagnostics paper: Simultaneous Noninvasive Detection and Therapy of Atherosclerosis Using HDL Coated Gold Nanorods. 2/22: Kudos to our Post Doc, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students Dr. Shweta Pawar, Pavitra Sokke Rudraiah and Channa Shapira for presenting at the Annual Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials conference. 2/22: New Optics Express paper: Classification of fluorescent anisotropy decay based on the distance approach in the frequency domain.
1/22: Prof. Dror Fixler was elected to the 8400 Leadership Program. 1/22: New Journal of Biophotonics paper: Diffused reflectance measurements to detect tattoo ink location in skin using the crossover point. 1/22: Our lab has recently attended Photonics West conference. One talk on behalf of Channa Shapira, and many posters, including those presented by our group: Hamootal Duadi, Inbar Yariv, and Pavitra S. Rudraiah.
2021
12/21: New Measurement paper: Diamond protection for reusable ZnO coated fiber-optic measurement head in optoelectrochemical investigation of bisphenol A. Collaboration with Prof. Małgorzata Jędrzejewska-Szczerska from the Gdańsk University of Technology.
11/21: New Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) paper: Extraction of absorption coefficients from two-layer phantoms based on crossover point in diffuse reflectance. 11/21: New grant: we got Magnet Grant: Israel Generic BioChip Technology Consortium.
10/21: Congratulations to our Postdoc student Dr. Inbar Yariv, for winning the Best poster award at NanoIL conference. 10/21: New grant: we got EU Virtual Mobility Grant: Improving detection of concentration, location and pigment detection of tattoos based on diffusion reflection. 10/21: New Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology (JCAD) paper: A novel facial cream based on skin penetrable fibrillar collagen micropaticles, collaboration with Prof. Rachel Lubart.
9/21: Congratulations to our Ph.D. students Pavitra Sokke Rudraiah, Channa Shapira and Ariel Ashkenazy, for winning the BIU Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Stipend for Outstanding Students! 9/21: New ACS Omega paper: Optimization of Gold Nanorods Features for Enhanced Performance of Plasmonic Nanocavity Arrays. 9/21: New grant: we got Ihel foundation: Remote sensing in turbid water of fishing nets using a phase recovery algorithm.
8/21: New Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences journal paper: Fluorophore Spectroscopy in Aqueous Glycerol Solution: The Non-Innocence of Glycerol and Its Interactions with the Fluorophore. 8/21: Congratulations to Ariel Ashkenazy for winning the scholarships for outstanding doctoral students in quantum science and technology. 8/21: New grant: we got the 2nd year grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel as part of the Nofar program. 5G Threat Landscape.
7/21: Call for papers: Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XIX, 23 January 2022 San Francisco, California, USA. 7/21: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Ariel Ashkenazy on the birth of his daughter. 7/21: New IEEE Photonics journal paper: Effect of Spatial Modulated Light on Position of Self-Calibration Point. 7/21: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Channa Shapira on the birth of her daughter. 7/21: Congratulations to our post doc fellow, Inbar Yariv, and our PhD students, Idit Feder, Ariel Ashkenazy, Pavitra SR and Marianna Beiderman, for winning the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Award for outstanding publications!
6/21: New Optics Express paper: Effect of optical magnification on the detection of the reduced scattering coefficient in the blue regime: theory and experiments. 6/21: New Biomedical Optics Express paper: Iterative optical technique for detecting anti-leishmania nanoparticles in mouse lesion. 6/21: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Dr. Inbar Yariv got her Ph.D. degree.
5/21: Dror elected as SPIE Community Champion. 5/21: Join us to the Bio Photonics & Medical Session during Photonics Days IL 2021
4/21: New IEEE photonics journal paper: Comment on "Rapid Image Reconstruction of Structured Illumination Microscopy Directly in the Spatial Domain” and more about Point Spread Function Shaping for Enhanced Imaging Resolution. 4/21: Welcome: Alon Tzruya that joined our Lab. Alon is a M.Sc. student that will deal with IPL method for water quality.
3/21: New International Journal of Nanomedicine paper: Diffusion Reflection Method for Early Detection of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Specifically Targeted by Circulating Gold-Nanorods Bio-Conjugated to Anti-Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor. 3/21: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Inbar Yariv on the birth of her daughter.
2/21: New OSA Continuum paper: Extraction of optical properties from a turbid medium using fiber probe for spectral and spatial diffuse reflectance measurement. 2/21: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Idit Feder on the birth of her daughter. 2/21: Welcome: Ori Pearel and Natanel Ovadia that joined our Lab.
1/21: New Frontiers in Physics invited paper: Influence of detector size and positioning on near-infrared measurements and iso-pathlength point of turbid materials. 1/21: New Nanomaterials paper: Carbon Dots Based Logic Gates.
2020
12/20: New grant. We got World Bank (WBG): The global CYBERSECURITY capacity program.
12/20: New Quantum Electronics paper: Interaction of laser radiation and complexes of gold nanoparticles lined to proteins. Collaboration with Prof. V. Tuchin and Prof. A. Savitsky from Russia.
12/20: New grant. We got Mafat grant: Secure 5G Network Slicing.
11/20: New grant. We got Mafat grant: building the system for remote sensing of fishing nets in sea. 11/20: Prof. Dror Fixler was chosen to be Associate Editor of Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine and Biotechnology Journal. 11/20: New Scientific Reports paper: Microscale diamond protection for a ZnO coated fiber optic sensor. Collaboration with Prof. Małgorzata Jędrzejewska-Szczerska from the Gdańsk University of Technology.
10/20: New Nano Letters paper: The Scattering of Gold Nanorods Combined with Differential Uptake, Paving a New Detection Method for Macrophage Subtypes Using Flow Cytometery. 10/20: We bid farewell to Dr. Ruchira Chakraborty returning to India after three and a half years in our group. We wish her all the best in the future.
9/20: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our students Channa Shapira and Ariel Ashkenazy got BINA excellence awards. 9/20: New Biomedical Optics Express paper: Single wavelength measurements of absorption coefficients based on iso-pathlength point.
8/20: New IEEE photonics journal paper: Depth scattering characterization of multi-layer turbid media based on iterative multi-plane reflectance measurements.
7/20: New ACS Appl. Nano Mater. paper: Gold Nanorod-Based Bio-Barcode Sensor Array for Enzymatic Detection in Biomedical Applications.
6/20: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Ariel Ashkenazy awarded Outstanding lecturer prize. 6/20: New Journal of Biophotonics paper: Fluorescence for Biological Logic Gates.
5/20: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Ariel Ashkenazy got his Master degree (M.Sc.) with grade of 99!
4/20: New grant: we got a new grant for 2 years from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel as part of the Nofar program. 5G Threat Landscape. 4/20: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Dr. Eran Barnoy got his Ph.D. degree.
3/20: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Dr. Shweta Pawar awarded The Council for Higher Education scholarship for excellent postdoctoral from China and India. 3/20: New Frontiers in Physics paper: Correlated Multimodal Imaging in Life Sciences: Expanding the Biomedical Horizon, part of COMULIS COST action.
2/20: Welcome: Dr. Shweta Pawar joined our Lab. Shweta is a postdoctoral from the VNIT, Nagpur, India. 2/20: Prof. Dror Fixler was chosen to be Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience Journal. 2/20: Our lab has recently attended Photonics West conference. The Students were enriched by interesting talks, with excellent talks given by Ruchira Chakraborty and Dror Fixler, and many posters, including those presented by our group: Hamootal Duadi, Inbar Yariv and Idit Feder.
1/20: Dror Fixler has been invited to deliver a series of seminars and meetings at the World Bank (Washington DC) including master class about How can we safeguard Cybersecurity on the Internet of Things. 1/20: New Materials paper: Diffusion Reflection Measurements of Antibodies Conjugated to Gold Nanoparticles as a Method to Identify Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Borders, Collaboration with Prof. Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen.
2019
12/19: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Shiran Sudri was chosen to be in Forbes list of 30UNDER30. 12/19: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Marianna Beiderman got the Ministry of Science & Technology scholarship. The 2nd year in succession.
11/19: New grant. We got Ministry of Science grant: Implementing nano logic gates in vivo based on GNPS and genetically engineered FRET pair of RFP. Collaboration with Prof. Alexander Savitsky from Fundamentals of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
10/19: New ACS Applied Nano Materials cover: Biological Logic Gate Using Gold Nanoparticles and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy. 10/19: Prof. Dror Fixler was chosen to be Associate Editor of Materials Journal.
9/19: New CARBON paper: Nanocrystalline diamond sheets as protective coatings for fiber-optic measurement heads. Collaboration with Prof. Małgorzata Jędrzejewska-Szczerska from the Gdańsk University of Technology. 9/19: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our student Ariel Ashkenazy got BINA excellence awards.
8/19: New ACS Applied Nano Materials paper: Biological Logic Gate Using Gold Nanoparticles and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy. 8/19: New agreement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). 8/19: New ACS Omega paper: Media characterization under scattering conditions by nano-photonics iterative multi-plane spectroscopy measurements.
7/19: New The Journal of Laryngology & Otology paper: The use of fluorescence lifetime technology in benign and malignant thyroid tissues, collaboration with Sheba Medical Center.
6/19: Prof. Dror Fixler was elected to be an OSA (Optical Society of America) senior member.
5/19: New Biomedical optics express paper: Algorithm for in vivo detection of tissue type from multiple scattering light phase images. 5/19: Call for papers: Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XVII, 1st February 2019 San Francisco, California, USA. 5/19: New Materials paper: Genetic Algorithms based Design for Metal-Enhanced Fluorescent Nanostructures.
4/19: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Dr. Manoop Chenchiliyan got a new position as a lecturer in Kerala Collegiate Education, University of Calicut.
3/19: New Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, paper: Estimation of the Rate of Entangled-Photon-Pair Interaction with Metallic Nanoparticles based on Classical-Light Second-Harmonic Generation Measurements. 3/19: New grant: we got Bar-Ilan university rector’s grant to establish a new interdisciplinary research group together with Prof. Oren Perez the Dean of the Faculty of Law. 3/19: Welcome: Monika Kosowska and Paulina Listewnik that joined our Lab. They came from the Politechnika Gdańska, Poland for a semester student exchange program.
2/19: New Journal of Biophotonics paper: The squared distance approach to frequency domain time-resolved fluorescence analysis. 2/19: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Ariel Ashkenazy awarded the best talk at the 10th BINA conference, Herzliya, 2019. 2/19: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Inbar Yariv awarded the best talk for young researcher at the SPIE Photonics West conference, San-Francisco, 2019. 2/19: Our lab has recently attended Photonics West conference. The Students were enriched by interesting talks, with four excellent talks given by Inbar Yariv, Gilad Yahav, Marianna Beiderman and Ariel Ashkenazy, and many posters, including those presented by our group: Hamootal Duadi, Ruchira Chakraborty and Manoop Chenchiliyan.
1/19: New Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology (JCAD) paper: A Breakthrough Facial Cream Based on Small Sized Hyaluronic Acid with Enhanced Therapeutic Properties, collaboration with Prof. Rachel Lubart. 1/19: Prof. Dror Fixler was elected to be a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering - SPIE.
2018
12/18: New OSA Continuum paper: The Self Calibration Iso-Pathlength Point in Cylindrical Tissue Geometry: Solution of Steady-State Photon Diffusion Based on the Extrapolated Zero-Boundary, collaboration with Prof. Daqing Piao, Oklahoma State University. 12/18: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Marianna Beiderman got the Ministry of Science & Technology scholarship.
11/18: New IEEE Photonics Journal paper: Dynamic ratiometric imaging of cytosolic free Ca2+ in skeletal muscle cells using 340/385 nm light emitting diode illuminators. 11/18: New Scientific Reports paper: Cardioprotection from stress conditions by weak magnetic field in the Schumann Resonance band, collaboration with Prof. Colin Price, Tel-Aviv University. 11/18: New grant. We got the first NSC and BINA collaboration project: Development of Nanoparticles Facilitating Sensitive Fluorescent Measurements in Cellular Vesicles. 11/18: Welcome: Pavitra SR that joined our Lab.
10/18: New Optics Letters paper: An optical method to extract the reduced scattering coefficient from tissue: theory and experiments. 10/18 Call for papers: special issue Design and Synthesis of Novel Optical Probes, materials journal. 10/18: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our students Idit Feder and Ariel Ashkenazy got BINA excellence awards.
9/18: New Nanomaterials paper: Gold Rod-Polyethylene Glycol-Carbon Dots Nanohybrids as Phototheranostic Probes. Collaboration with TIPC, China. 9/18: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Idit Feder awarded Katz scholarship for Ph.D. student, Bar-Ilan University president award.
8/18: Prof. Dror Fixler was chosen to be Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal. 8/18: New Journal of Biophotonics paper: Hyperlipidemic mouse as a model for a real-time in vivo detection of atherosclerosis by gold nanorods based diffusion reflection technique. 8/18: Courses in Nanoscience, The Jyväskylä Summer School, Nanophotonics: Fluorescence and Plasmon Controlled Fluorescence
7/18: New grant. We got ISF grant: Time and frequency multiplexing as a new optical technique for investigating tissue depths information by full scattering profile. 7/18: We are welcome our (yearly) guests from Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC) Beijing China and this year from Manipal University, India.
6/18: Amazing! Winning a third research grant in five days. We got Kamin grant: Personalized device for accurately diagnosing of physiological condition based on IPL point. 6/18: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Eran and Tsviya Barnoy, on the birth of their son. 6/18: New grant. we got Mafat grant: Remote sensing of fishing nets in sea using phase retrieval algorithm under opaque conditions. 6/18: Our Lab got the 3rd year of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel grant as part of the MAGNET program. HERON- Next generation cellular networks.
5/18: New ACS Omega paper: Three-Dimensional Highly Sensitive Diffusion Reflection Based Imaging Method for the In Vivo Localization of Atherosclerosis Plaques Following Gold Nanorods Accumulation. 5/18: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our Student Idit Feder got the Rector Excellence award; Our student Ariel Ashkenazy got the Dean excellence award. This is for the 4th year in succession. 5/18 Call for papers: Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XVI, 2 February 2019 San Francisco, California, USA.
4/18: Our work has been highlighted on the news website AdvancedScienceNews.com 4/18: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Dr. Manoop Chenchiliyan awarded The Council for Higher Education scholarship for excellent postdoctoral from China and India. 4/18: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Idit Feder on the birth of her son.
3/18: New IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering paper: Pathogen Detection Using Frequency Domain Fluorescent Lifetime Measurements. 3/18: New grant: we got Ihel foundation grant: A New Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Based Non-Invasive Method for Oocyte Selection.
2/18: New ACS Omega paper: Self-Calibration Phenomenon for Near-infrared Clinical Measurements: Theory, Simulation and Experiments. 2/18: Congratulations to the team for winning a group Purim costume competition among the labs of the nano center! The team dressed up as the light dispersed from a prism, including the white light and prism.
1/18: Our lab has recently attended Photonics West conference. The Students were enriched by numerous interesting talks, with two excellent talks given by Ruchira Chakraborty and Eran Barnoy, and many posters, including those presented by our group: Hamootal Duadi, Inbar Yariv, Idit Feder and Gilad Yahav.
2017
11/17: New Journal of Biophotonics paper: Near-infrared human finger measurements based on self-calibration point: simulation and in vivo experiments. 11/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Marianna Beiderman got the Ministry of Science & Technology scholarship. 11/17: Welcome: Dr. Manoop Chenchiliyan, Shiran Sudri and Alix Le Marois that joined our Lab. Manoop is a postdoctoral from the University of Tartu, Estonia; Shiran is a M.Sc. student and Alix came from the Kings Collage of London for a STSM program.
10/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our students Idit Feder and Ariel Ashkenazy got BINA excellence awards. 10/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Inbar Yariv on the birth of her son. 10/17: Our Lab got the 2nd year of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel grant as part of the MAGNET program. HERON- Next generation cellular networks. 10/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Ariel Ashkenazy awarded the best project of the 4th year at the Faculty of Engineering 2017.
9/17: Prof. Dror Fixler was chosen to be the head of the Bio-nano medicine session in NanoIsrael Conf 2018. 9/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Ariel Ashkenazy awarded the best talk at the Engineering Faculty Retreat, Neve Ilan, 2017. 9/17: We are welcome our guests Prof. Tarakdas and Ruma Basu from the University of Kalyani, India. 9/17: Our Master student Ariel Ashkenazy participated in ChinaNano 2017 conference in Beijing, after he won travel grants from the Organization Committee of 2nd NANO Trip China, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China for presenting his research in the conference.
8/17: Prof. Dror Fixler participated the Directors' Forum on Nanotechnology, Beijing 2017. 8/17: Prof. Dror Fixler was chosen to be the head of the Optics and Electro-Optics in Medicine and Biology session of OASIS conference, April 2019. 8/17: New book from Prof. Dror Fixler: Maimonides commentary on the Mishna: An annotated edition on Tractate Gittin. 8/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Inbar Yariv awarded Katz scholarship for Ph.D. student, Bar-Ilan University president award.
7/17: New Cytometry editorial paper: Nanoscale Imaging and Sensing for Biomedical Applications. 7/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Dr. Rinat Ankri on the birth of her son. 7/17: We are welcome our guests from Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC) Beijing China.
6/17: New ChemNanoMat paper: Towards in vivo Tumor Detection Using Polarization and Wavelength Characteristics of Self-Assembly Chiral Inorganic Nanomaterials. Invited paper accepted for publication as a Very Important Paper (VIP). Collaboration with Prof. Zhiyong Tang from NCNST, China. 6/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Dr. Ruchira Chakraborty awarded The Council for Higher Education scholarship for excellent postdoctoral from China and India. 6/17: New Nano Research paper: Multimodal Bioimaging based on Gold Nanorods and Carbon Dots Nanohybrids as a novel tool for Atherosclerosis Detection. Collaboration with TIPC, China. 6/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Inbar Yariv awarded Prof. Rahamimoff Travel Grant for Young Scientists of the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). 6/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Gilad Yahav awarded Travel Grant for SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA.
5/17: New Journal of Biophotonics paper: Development of a molecular bio-switch using fluorescence lifetime imaging: incremental activation of fluorescein diacetate. 5/17: New Nano Photonics paper: Gold Nanorods Based Diffusion Reflection Measurements: Current Status and Perspectives for Clinical Applications (invited review paper). 5/17: New Scientific Reports paper: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy, a Novel Diagnostic Tool for Metastatic Cell Detection in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of Children with Medulloblastoma. Collaboration with Prof. Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen.
4/17 Call for papers: Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XV, 27 January 2017 San Francisco, California, USA. 4/17: Call for papers: 2nd Global Summit & Expo on Laser Optics & Photonics, June 14-16, 2018 Rome, Italy.
3/17: New Materials paper: Haemocompatibility of Modified Nanodiamonds. Collaboration with Prof. Małgorzata Jędrzejewska-Szczerska from the Gdańsk University of Technology. 3/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Eran Barnoy awarded the best students talk at the Israeli Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (ISMBE) Conference, Haifa, 2017. 3/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Inbar Yariv awarded the Excellence Prize of the Israeli Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (ISMBE), for her outstanding achievements in studies and research, commendable motivation and significance of her PhD research to the field of Biomedical Engineering. 3/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Eran Barnoy got the BINA prize for nano art. 3/17: New Nano Research & Applications paper: Identification of Postoperative Margins
of Glioblastoma Multiforme Using Gold Nanoparticles Conjugated to Epidermal Growth Factor Antibodies.
2/17: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our student Ariel Ashkenazy got the Dean excellence award. This is for the 3rd year in succession. 2/17: New Algal Research paper: Nitrogen-doped carbon dots prepared from bovine serum albumin to enhance algal astaxanthin production. 2/17: Welcome: Dr. Ruchira Chakraborty joined our Lab. Ruchira is a postdoctoral from the university of Kalyani, west Bengal, India.
1/17: New Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine paper: Gold–nanorods reflectance discriminate benign from invasive oral cancer. 1/17: Dror Fixler awarded for the President‘s International Fellowship Initiative award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This prestigious award commends and honors eminent foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to facilitating cooperation with the CAS in science and technology. 1/17: New grant: we got a new industry grant (from eggXYT LTD) on the topic: "fluorescence measurements for identifying the sex inside the egg ". 1/17: Call for papers: International conference on functional nanomaterials and nanodevices, 25-27 SEPTEMBER 2017.
2016
12/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our student Ariel Ashkenazy won STSM application from COST Action MP1403. 12/16: New collaboration with the Dept. of Pharmacy, University of Patras, Greece. 12/16 New: call for papers for Biomedical Engineering, ISMBE 2017 7 March 2017 Haifa. 12/16: Technical aspects in 5G IoT security. Lecture of Prof. Fixler at IoT security seminar.
11/16: New Materials paper as part of special issue in Nanoprobes for Imaging: Tissue-like phantoms as a platform for inserted fluorescence nano-probes. 11/16: New grant: we got a new grant (from Gassner Fund for Medical Research) for 1 year on the topic: "Theranostics of unstable plaque by HDL coating Gold nanoparticles ". Collaboration with Prof. Eli Lev and Dr. Dorit Leshem from Rabin medical Center. 11/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our students Eran Barnoy, Inbar Yariv and Ariel Ashkenazy got BINA excellence awards. 11/16: Welcome: Kai Wang joined our Lab (collaboration with Dr. Adi Salomon Lab). Kai is a Ph.D. student from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Beijing China. 11/16: New Journal of Biomedical Photonics & Engineering (JBPE) paper: Experimentally testing the role of blood vessels in the full scattering profile: solid phantom measurements.
10/16: New Biomedical Optics Express paper: Experimental results of full scattering profile from finger tissue-like phantoms. Collaboration with Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejewska-Szczerska from Politechnika Gdańska, Poland. 10/16: New Journal of Biophotonics paper: Reference-independent wide field fluorescence lifetime measurements using Frequency-Domain technique based on phase and amplitude crossing point. 10/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Tsviya Nayhoz, got her M.Sc. degree with grad of 94! 10/16: New BBRC paper: Utilizing fluorescent life time imaging microscopy technology for identify carriers of BRCA2 mutation. Collaboration with Dr. Mali Salmon-Divon from Ariel University.
9/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Dr. Said Abu-Ghosh. His Ph.D. dissertation was approved. 9/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Eran Barnoy got the Ministry of Science scholarship in the field of applied science and engineering. 9/16: New grant: we got a new industry grant (from Zingboim LTD) for 1 year on the topic: " Determination of Hyaluronic acid penetration depth in tissues". 9/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Congratulations to Ariel Ashkenazy on the birth of his first daughter. 9/16: New International Journal of Nanomedicine paper: New optical sensing technique of tissues viability and blood flow based on nanophotonic iterative multi-plane reflectance measurements.
8/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Dr. Rinat Ankri got the Council for Higher Education of Israel scholarship for outstanding postdoctoral. 8/16: New Optics Letters paper: Simulation of oxygen saturation measurement in a single blood vein. 8/16: Welcome: Chen Tzur and Andrew Katz joined our Lab. Chen is a M.Sc. student and his research topic is Genetic Algorithms for Metal Enhance Fluorescence and Andrew came from the Yeshiva University - New York, for a summer research program.
7/16: New grant: we got a new ISF grant (with Prof. Avi Hirshberg) for 3 years on the topic: "Diffusion reflection, a novel non-invasive nanophotonic method for early in vivo detection of oral cancer".
7/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Arieal Ashkenazy got the BINA scholarship for summer program.
7/16: New interview for the IoT security conference (invited speaker and part of the steering committee).
7/16: New collaboration with the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland.
6/16: Our Lab got a special prize from Bar-Ilan University rector for outstanding achievements in research for 2015.
6/16: New grant: we got a new grant for 3 years from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel as part of the MAGNET program. HERON- Next generation cellular networks.
6/16: New Cytometry paper: Fluorescence lifetime imaging of DAPI-stained nuclei as a novel diagnostic tool for the detection and classification of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
5/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Gilad Yahav, got his Ms.C. degree with grad of 94!
5/16: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Our Ph.D. students Idit Feder, Said Saleh Abughosh and Eran Barnoy got BINA awards for nano publications.
5/16 New: call for papers for Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XIV 28 January 2017 San Francisco, California, USA.
This year two "Young Investigator Awards", 500 US$ each, sponsored by Prizmatix Ltd., will be awarded for notable contributions by young scientists presenting their work at the Conference.