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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Engineering-Meets-Medicine-for-Maximum-Impact-571922
Technion Researchers Bring Engineering to Medicine
(Jerusalem Post) Jennifer Frey - At the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, engineers, researchers and physicians work side-by-side to create amazing medical devices and technologies that impact the lives of people everywhere. Professor Moshe Shoham developed a robotic guidance system that helps perform brain and spine surgeries with pinpoint accuracy. The company he founded, Mazor Robotics, has done more than 7,000 successful surgeries and 50,000 implants. While battling cancer, Biotechnology and Food Engineering Professor Ester Segal spent endless days hooked up to IVs. She is developing nano-silicon carriers that could be ingested, injected or implanted to deliver chemotherapy over a period of weeks or months, doing away with IV drips, allowing patients to receive treatment while going about their daily lives.