Researchers from CATRIN at Palacký University Olomouc, in cooperation with colleagues from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and the Italian company ITELCOND, are working to develop high-capacity, safe, and environmentally-friendly supercapacitors based on a graphene-derived material developed in Olomouc, which is already protected by a European patent. Read More.

Bar-Ilan University will present students commencing their studies in the Academic Year 2022-2023 with a special gift: an NFT, a unique and tradable digital work of art, based on figures inspired by the university’s diverse community. Read More.

Researchers from Israel’s Bar-Ilan University published a study, which indicates a third COVID booster shot is essential even for patients who previously contracted the virus. The study was conducted jointly by Prof. Michael Edelstein of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Kamal Abu Jabal of Ziv Medical Center. Read More.

Faculty members and graduate students from BIU’s Department of Psychology are volunteering on a hotline opened in the department following the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The hotline seeks to provide psychological support services to refugees, and especially their families in Israel, who feel distressed because of the situation. Read More.

On April 6, the “Rakia” mission will head for space with technology to test vision in microgravity. A digital vision test designed by Bar-Ilan University researchers Prof. Uri Polat and Prof. Yossi Mandel, together with Dr. Eran Schenker, Chief Medical Innovation Officer at the Israel Aerospace Medicine Institute, will be one of the scientific experiments to be conducted at the International Space Station as part of the “Rakia” mission with Israel’s second astronaut, Eytan Stibbe. Read More.

Bar-Ilan University Prof. Rachela Popovtzer is a recipient of the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the EU’s European Research Council (ERC). These grants are awarded to outstanding researchers with a scientific track record showing great promise. The grant will help her in her quest to develop a cure for rare genetic brain diseases. Read More.

The technology is the result of a license agreement signed between Refhuel Limited, a subsidiary of Decama Capital Ltd (symbol: DCMA), an Israeli investment company headquartered in the UK and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, and BIRAD, Bar-Ilan University’s Research and Development Company. The pioneering technology to allow reversible fuel cells, which is already in development, has been worked on at BIU under the leadership of Professor Lior Elbaz. Read More.

Prof. Beena Kalisky, a world-renowned physicist in Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Physics, is the winner of the Na’amat Centennial Prize for women scientists. Na’amat, the Movement for the Advancement of the Status of Women in Israel, honored Prof. Kalisky for her groundbreaking research and efforts to advance women in science and academia. Read More.

Two Bar-Ilan University researchers – Prof. Michal Alberstein, of the Faculty of Law, and Prof. Sharon Ruthstein, of the Department of Chemistry and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials – are the recipients of European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept (PoC) grants for their innovation proposals: MULTIDOOR and Hypo-Imag. Read More.

A new Israeli study has found that the proportion of women who reported side effects after receiving their first, second, or third dose of the Pfizer vaccination is 1.9 times that among men. Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the Immunotherapy Laboratory at Bar-Ilan University, was interviewed about the research. Read More.