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Tzahi Cohen-Karni - Engineering

Tzahi Cohen-Karni

Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, Engineering

Unique interfaces between biology and nanoscience and nanotechnology

Expertise

Topics:  biomedical nanodevices, Nano-Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Applied Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Tzahi Cohen-Karni is an Professor at the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science engineering in Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA USA. He received both his B.Sc. degree in Materials Engineering and the B.A. degree in Chemistry from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 2004. His M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA, in 2011. He was a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston Children’s Hospital at the labs of Robert Langer and Daniel S. Kohane from 2011 to 2013. Dr. Cohen-Karni received the 2012 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Young Chemist Award. In 2014, he was awarded the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation Young Investigator Research Award. In 2016, Dr. Cohen-Karni was awarded the NSF CAREER Award. In 2017, Dr. Cohen-Karni was awarded the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award, The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and The George Tallman Ladd Research Award. In 2018, Dr. Cohen-Karni was awarded the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award. In 2019, Dr. Cohen-Karni was awarded the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) Dean’s Early Career Fellowship.

Education

Ph.D, Applied Physics, Harvard University,
M.Sc., Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science
B.Sc., Materials Engineering and Chemistry, Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Spotlights

Accomplishments

Awards (The Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) Dean’s Early Career Fellowship, 2019 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award, 2018 The George Tallman Ladd Research Award, 2017 The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2017 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award, 2017 NSF CAREER Award, 2016 Charles E. Kaufman Foundation Young Investigator Research Award, 2014 I nternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Young Chemist Award, 2012)