THE ELA KODESZ Institute for Technologies in Healthcare

The Goldschlager Multidisciplinary building, Room 315.

Reports on the first round of the call for proposals for cross disciplinary research.

1:00 PM-1:05 PM Welcome, Israel Gannot

1:05 PM-1:15 PM Opening remarks, Dan Pe’er, Vice president for research and development.

Research updates:

1:15 PM-1:45 PM

‘Seeing Is Believing’: Observing the Effect of Mindfulness on Sleep Quality and
Brain Biochemistry Using Advanced Quantitative MRI Techniques
Noam Ben Eliezer, Faculty of Engineering, Ricardo Tarrasch, School of
Education.

1:45 PM-2:15 PM

Hydrogel-based neuronal network platform for investigation of consciousness
Ayelet Lesman, Faculty of Engineering, Uri Ashery, Faculty of Life Sciences,
Liad Mudrik, School of Psychology

2:15 PM-2:30 PM Coffee break

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Accounting for the burden of care to improve healthcare
Yechiel Barilian, Faculty of Medicine, Gali Cinamon, Faculty of Humanities, Dan
Yamin, Faculty of Engineering.

3:00 PM-3:30 PM

Urban Health and Planning Patterns
Tali Hatuka (Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences), Noam
Shomron, Faculty of Medicine.

3:30 PM-3:40 PM

Israel Gannot, Concluding remarks and presentation of the new call.

Questions: Please e-mail to: gannoti@tauex.tau.ac.il