Prof. Uri Nevo - Short Bio

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Prof. Uri Nevo is chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering in Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Nevo did all his academic degrees in the School of Physics and Astronomy in Tel Aviv University. He served as a postdoctoral Fulbright fellow in the NIH, in Bethesda, MD, and joined the Dept. of BME in TAU as a faculty member in 2009.

Prof. Nevo’s primary academic achievements include the development of the theory of Ecoimmunity and the work on biomedical applications with a portable MRI system.  In 2010, Prof. Nevo co-founded & served as the first academic director of the President Peres' program for nurturing Israel's future scientists and inventors, Tel-Aviv University  (now, the Odyssey program) and is also active as an entrepreneur in the biomedical field.