Towards generating solutions to the world's most pressing challenges

Zimin Institute at TAU

The Zimin Institute for Engineering Solutions Advancing Better Lives supports selected research projects carried out by TAU researchers towards generating applied solutions to the world's most pressing challenges in Healthcare, Medicine, Digital Health Technologies, Brain Studies, Slowing-down Aging and the related fields.

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Call for Proposals

The Zimin Institute for Engineering Solutions Advancing Better Lives (“Zimin Institute”) is interested to harness the research carried out by TAU researchers towards generating solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges, in areas such as water purification, pollution and toxin monitoring, battling disease, renewable energy, cyber-security and many more.

VR for Behavioral Change

In the first 8 months of the project we were able to establish a proof-of-concept showing a high resolution, wireless surface electromyography (sEMG) recordings during VR engagement combined with eye-tracking. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a system capable of recording internal states during a VR task. Figure 1 shows the 16 channel wireless facial EMG with the VR headset on a participant face.

Identification of intraperitoneal free cancer cells

Intra-abdominal malignancies often result in intraperitoneal free cancer cells (IPCCs), which increase the chances of cancer spreading to distal organs, and serve as an important prognostic tool in cancers such as ovarian and gastric cancers. Curative treatments based on intraperitoneal chemotherapy often have effective outcomes, however, the time between IPCC sampling and detection is critical, currently taking weeks to reach a conclusion

Development of a multimodal Brain-Computer

The project aims to develop a multimodal brain-computer interface (BCI) for control of devices, which is based on a combination of brain signals and residual movement recordings

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