Hossam Haick
| Hossam Haick | |
|---|---|
| Native name | حسام حايك |
| Born |
1975 Nazareth, Israel |
| Residence | Haifa, Israel |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Fields |
Nanotechnology Molecular electronics |
| Institutions | Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion |
| Education | St. Joseph High School |
| Alma mater |
Ben-Gurion University Technion Weizmann Institute of Science Caltech |
| Known for | Na-Nose |
Hossam Haick is an Israeli-Arab scientist and engineer, born in 1975. He is well known for his invention of the Electronic Nose (NA-NOSE) which is widely used for sniffing out diseases' biomarkers. He has many contributions in multidisciplinary fields such as Nanotechnology, Nanosensors and Molecular Electronics.[1]
Academic life
Hossam Haick is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and an expert in the field of nanotechnology and non-invasive disease diagnosis. He was born in Nazareth, Israel. In 1998, he received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University, and in 2002, he got his Ph.D. in a direct track from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He spent two years (2004-2006) as a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology-Caltech, after spending two years at the Weizmann Institute of Science(2002-2004). He went back to the Technion-Israel Institute of technology and became an assistant professor in 2006. He is now a full-academic professor in the department of Chemical Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute(RBNI), and the director of the Laboratory of Nanomaterials-based Devices(LNBD) at the Technion.[2]
Achievements
Hossam Haick has made a significant mark through his development of artificially intelligent nanoarray technology to detect diseases in non-invasive manner, which earned him a wide variety of prestigious grants: Marie Curie Excellence Grant, ERC, Bill & Milenda Gate Award, coordinator of FP-7 consortium (LCAOS; 2011-2015), coordinator of a EuroNanoMed consortium (Volgacore; 2014-2017), coordinator of Horizon2020 ICT consortium (SniffPhone; 2015-2019), and many more. The device is named as "Na-Nose", also called "E-Nose." He also has several patents and contributions for creating artificial electronic skins used for prosthetics and robotics applications.[3]
He is the recipient of dozens of international honors and prizes for his achievements, including a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (conferred by the French Government), the “List of the World’s Top 35 Young Scientists”, and the “Bill & Melinda Gates” Award, the "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" Prize in Chemical Engineering, the “Tenne Prize for Excellence in the Science of Nanotechnology”, etc. Besides his recent and past achievements in research, he had excellent achievements as a lecturer, expressed by a wide variety of prizes that he received for (constantly) excellence in teaching (top 4%). He is also the recipient of the prestigious "Yanai Prize for Academic Excellence", which is given for exceptional and significant contribution in teaching and academic education.
The research interests of Hossam Haick include nano-array devices for screening, diagnosis and monitoring of disease, nanomaterial-based chemical (flexible) sensors, electronic skin, breath analysis, volatile biomarkers, and molecule-based electronic devices.
References
- ↑ Grimland, Guy (2 July 2010). "The Israeli scientist who is sniffing out cancer". Haaretz. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ↑ "LNBD Home Page". Lnbd.technion.ac.il. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
- ↑ "With a breath, Technion device finds lung cancer". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 16 February 2015.