Shulamit Levenberg
Head of the Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering
Technion’s 3D Bioprinting Center and the Schneur Center for Diabetes Research
Israel
Shulamit Levenberg, PhD, is a professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion and director of the Technion’s 3D Bioprinting Center and the Schneur Center for Diabetes Research. Prof Levenberg conducts interdisciplinary research on stem cells and Biofabrication. She received numerous awards including the prestigious Krill, Rappaport and Bruno prizes for excellence in scientific research and the Medal of Distinction from the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Prof. Levenberg is a member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. She is the former President of the Israel Stem Cell Society and the former Dean of the Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering.
She also served as a member of the Israel National Council for Bioethics. Prof Levenberg is a co-founder and chief scientific advisor of three start-up companies in the areas of cultured meat, spinal cord regeneration and nanoliter arrays for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing. She received her B.Sc in Biology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Ph.D In Molecular cell biology from the Weizmann Institute and did her Post doc in Tissue Engineering at the Langer Lab at MIT.
