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Please watch and read the latest news coverage of our obesity biomechanics research from March-April 2014, in the Israeli Channel 10 news and in "Haaretz" newspaper (in Hebrew).



The work has again made international impact in printed and online media across the world, and was covered e.g. in the British Daily Mail, the Canadian National Post, and more. Relevant links follow.

The Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
National Post (Canada)
 

EPUAP International Focus Meeting on Technological Innovations in Pressure Ulcer Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, April 16-17, 2012
This was a 2-day meeting organized by Prof. Amit Gefen in framework of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel - EPUAP (April 16-17, 2012). The meeting was aimed at exchanging knowledge between scientists, clinicians and R&D personnel in companies in regard to the latest technologies for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. This focus meeting was also intended to identify technological gaps and clinical needs, and will hopefully lead to the establishment of a long-lasting, EPUAP-supported academia-healthcare-industry network in the pressure ulcer field. Presentations in this focus meeting were by invitation from the EPUAP Scientific Committee, however this was an open meeting to which participants from academia, health services and industry could register. There were about 50 participants - a mixed international audience of scientists, clinicians and industry. The international companies that were represented included the biggest ones in the chronic wound field. Leading guest scientists who presented were all from Europe (UK, the Netherlands, France and Portugal), and included: Prof. Jane Nixon, University of Leeds; Dr. Nicole Papen-Botterhuis, TNO the Netherlands; Prof. Miguel Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal; Prof. Susan Gibbs, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; Prof. Dan Bader, University of Southampton; Prof. Michael Clark, University of Birmingham; Prof. Yohan Payan, Universit? Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble; Prof. Cees Oomens, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. There were also several leading Israeli clinicians in the program as well as senior Israeli scientists from Tel Aviv University and other universities.

EPUAP 2012 Focus meeting tel aviv israel
 
EPUAP 2012 Focus meeting tel aviv israel
 

The Daily Mail, one of the leading newspapers in the United Kingdom, further follows on the fat cell research story, and publishes the item on December 6th 2011.

 

Major Israeli news website Y-net further follows on the reports of the study of mechanotransduction in adipocytes, on November 29, 2011

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4154455,00.html
 

The Israeli newspaper YEDIOT AHRONOT publishes on November 24 2011 a news piece on our latest research regarding mechanotransduction of fat cells, reporting a potential relationship between a sedentary lifestyle and accumulation of triglycerides in the adipocytes in the weight-bearing tissues.






The story was also broadcasted on the radio during the morning program



 

Our research on fat cells (adipocytes) has been covered during primetime in the major Israeli Radio Station KOL ISRAEL (Reshet Bet) on November 28 2010. The following links contain the audio recordings of the story (in Hebrew)


The story that was broadcasted during the morning program (click on the first icon):

Follow-up on the 9 O'clock news (click on the second icon):



 
The Israeli newspaper MAARIV publishes on April 25 2010 a story online, on the technologies developed at the Gefen lab for preventing pressure ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers. Read the story here.

The Israeli Ministry of Foriegn Affairs filmed a movie in Prof. Gefen's lab which presents his latest research in Cellular Mechanics and Tissue Engineering.

Major Israeli newspaper YEDIOT publishes a story on the Cellular Mechanics research carried out by Prof. Amit Gefen and his doctoral student Ms. Noa Slomka, on March 2 2010.

The online version in Ynet is available in:
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3856885,00.html

Cellular Mechanics research
 

Major Israeli radio stations followed on the story and interviewed Prof. Gefen.
The summary of the interview in the morning news of GALEI-TZAHAL can be found in:
http://www.glz.co.il/NewsArticle.aspx?NewsId=58058

The Israeli newspaper in English, the Jerusalem Post, also followed the story on March 28 2010

Jerusalem Post

Major Israeli newspaper MAARIV publishes a story on the Cell and Tissue Engineering research work of Prof. Amit Gefen, on December 15 2009.

Online version in NRG

Jerusalem Post

Prof. Amit Gefen receives the Perkins Prize for the Best Paper published in Medical Engineering & Physics on 2008. The prize was awarded on September 15 2009 in Liverpool, U.K., during the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. The paper for which the prize was awarded is entitled "Inhomogeneity of tissue-level strain distributions in individual trabeculae: mathematical model studies of normal and osteoporosis cases." (Med Eng Phys. 2008;30(5):624-30). Co-authors in this paper were Ms. Sigal Portnoy and Ms. Idit Diamant, both are graduate students of Prof. Gefen.

Diamant award

The book "The Pathomechanics of Tissue Injury and Disease, and the Mechanophysiology of Healing", edited by Prof. Amit Gefen, and published by Research Signpost, Kerala, India, was released on July 2009. This book contains perspectives from leading scientists worldwide on the role of mechanics in injury, disease and healing. The topics covered span from bone tumors to pressure ulcers and from osteoarthritis to breast cancer, which illustrates how mechanics is now identified as the common denominator in so many important chronic conditions, as opposed to just trauma. The entire contents of the book are available online at the publisher's website.

ressign.com

The Pathomechanics of Tissue Injury and Disease, and the Mechanophysiology of Healing

The new cell and tissue engineering teaching laboratory is now open and running!

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New Teaching Laboratory
 

Pictures from the inauguration ceremony that officially opened the new Cell and Tissue Engineering Teaching Laboratory, on June 9th 2009