Prof. David Elad Department of Biomedical Engineering The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, ISRAEL Phone: +972-3-640-8476 Lab: +972-3-640-8956 Fax: +972-3-640-5843 e mail: elad@post.tau.ac.il

Research Interests:

• Respiratory Biomechanics: Integrative assessment of respiratory muscles, Transport phenomena in the human nose, Objective noninvasive evaluation of nasal function, Mechano-transduction and mucus secretion in ALI cultured nasal epithelium, Drug transport across in vitro nasal epithelium. Mechano-biology of the nasal epithelium in response to air pollution.
• Reproductive Bioengineering: Uterine peristalsis in early human life, Pre-implantation embryo transport after IVF, Placental feto-maternal blood circulations, In vitro modeling of transport across the placenta barrier, Mechano-transduction of cultured ovarian cancer cells, Biomechanics of breastfeeding.

Biography:

David Elad is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University since 1985. He received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering on 1973, M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering on 1978 and 1982, all from the Technion, Haifa, Israel. He was then awarded the Rothschild and Bantrell post-doctoral fellowships at Imperial College London and M.I.T.


David pioneered computational studies of biofluid transport phenomena in the nasal cavity in the late 80's. In the early 90's he established a comprehensive research program in bioengineering of human reproduction, both at Tel Aviv University. He developed his expertise in the fields of Respiratory Biomechanics and Reproductive Bioengineering, from complete organs all the way to the cellular levels. The respiratory studies included integrative assessment of respiratory muscles, transport phenomena in the human nose, objective noninvasive evaluation of nasal function and mechano-transduction of nasal epithelial cells cultured under air-liquid interface conditions, including effects of air-pollution. The reproductive studies included the role of uterine peristalsis in early human life, pre-implantation embryo transport after IVF, feto-maternal blood circulations in the placenta, transport of nutrition, pharmaceuticals and carcinogenic materials across a tissue engineered placental barrier, mechano-transduction of cultured ovarian cancer cells and biomechanics of infant breastfeeding.
David has been a visiting scholar at Imperial College London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Drexel University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, City College New York and Columbia University. He is a member of the World Council for Biomechanics (2002-14) and a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2004), the Biomedical Engineering Society, USA (2005) and the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (2013).

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