Yuval Garini

Executive Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations

Prof. Yuval Garini of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering has been appointed Executive Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations. He is a graduate of the Technion’s Faculty of Physics and a co-founder of a company specializing in advanced medical instrumentation. After a period at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, he joined the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University, where he served as head of the Institute of Nanotechnology, which he helped develop and advance. He returned to the Technion in 2020 as head of the Biophysics and Nano-Dynamics Laboratory in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering. His research focuses on developing and applying biophysics – and nanotechnology-based methods, designing systems for cancer diagnosis and targeted drug delivery, and studying the mechanisms of the living cell nucleus. He is active in Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE) and its Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC), where he chairs several committees and maintains close ties with universities and companies in Israel and worldwide.