Flexible Materials & Devices Webinar

We are pleased to announce that Professor Hossam Haick from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, will be our invited guest speaker for the upcoming webinar series on Flexible Materials & Devices.

The title of his talk is "Wearable Devices for Disease Detection without a Needle".

EDM - Wearable Devices for Diseases Detection without a Needles

Biography:

Hossam Haick is a Full Professor in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and an expert in the field of nanotechnology and non-invasive disease diagnosis. He earned his doctorate from Technion in 2002. After graduation, he did two, two-year postdoctoral fellowships – first at the Weizmann Institute of Science, then at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He returned to Technion at the end of 2006 as an Assistant Professor and obtained full professorship in 2011. Professor Haick has published more than 220 publications in top-level journals in the field of nanotechnology, advanced/applied materials, chemistry, and medicine, and more than ten five book chapters. The technologies developed by Professor Haick and his team have led to the production of more than 42 patents and patent applications, many of which have been licensed to international companies. Professor Haick is the Cofounder of FeelIT Ltd. and NanoVation-S.G. Ltd., a startup companies aiming to commercialize innovative non-invasive technology for monitoring vital signs in health. 

The research interests of Professor Haick include nano-array devices for screening, diagnosis and monitoring of disease, nanomaterial-based chemical (flexible) sensors, electronic skin, breath analysis, volatile biomarkers, and cell-to-cell communication.