Yoram Lanir DSc

Dr. Lanir earned his Ph.D. degree from the Technion and did his post-doctoral training in UCSD. He joined the Technion in 1973 as a faculty member in Biomedical Engineering. From 1974-1975 he served as the department head. In 1990 he was a founding member of the World Congress in Biomechanics and served on its council till 1998. From 1995-1999 he initiated and led the establishment of the new Technion undergraduate program in Biomedical Engineering, the first in Israel. From 1998-2008 he held the Technion Marcus Reiner chair in Rheology till his retirement. He served as an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering from 2005-2010. Dr. Lanir's experimental and theoretical studies are in two fields of Biomechanics: the underlying molecular, micro-structural, transport, and mechano-biological aspects of tissue mechanics and of their evolution undergrowth and remodeling, and the coronary flow and its regulation.

Dr. Lanir won twice the Henri Gutwirth Research Award (1982,1985), the Lee Silver Friedman Award in Biomedical Engineering (1992), and the 2003 Richard Skalak Best Paper Award, by the Bioengineering Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineering.