Tali Ilovitsh is an Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her lab pioneers biomedical ultrasound technologies, advancing imaging capabilities and developing transformative noninvasive therapies for cancer and brain diseases. She earned her B.Sc. (2010), M.Sc. (2011, direct track), and Ph.D. (2016) in Electrical Engineering from Bar Ilan University, Israel. From 2016 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in Professor Katherine Ferrara’s lab, first at the University of California, Davis, and later at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she specialized in medical acoustics and ultrasound therapy. Prof. Ilovitsh has received multiple prestigious recognitions, including being selected as Forbes Israel’s “30 Under 30” in Science, Early Career Innovator by ACS Bioconjugate Chemistry, and Rising Star in Therapeutic Ultrasound by ISTU, and she is a recipient of the ERC Starting Grant. She serves as an Administrative Committee member of IEEE UFFC, on the IEEE IUS technical committee, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Controlled Release. Her contributions continue to shape the future of ultrasound imaging and therapy, bridging engineering and medicine to develop cutting-edge technologies for both diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
Prof. Tali Ilovitsh
ENGINEERING GENERAL
Biography
Curriculum Vitae
2024- Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2019-2024 Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor aquivalent)
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2018-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, USA
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
2016-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Davis, USA
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA
2012-2016 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
2010-2012 M.Sc. Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
2007-2011 B.Sc. Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Research Interests
Developing new medical ultrasound technologies. 3D ultrasound, super resolution, ultrasound beam shaping, image processing and machine learning. Therapeutic ultrasound coupled with bubbles for drug delivery, gene therapy, blood brain barrier opening, mechanical ablation for cancer therapy
Selected publications
M. Shumer-Elbaz, N. Ad-El, Y. Chulanova, D. Brier, M. Goldsmith, M. Bismuth, A. Brosque, R. Gattegno, D. Sher, A. Gutkin, D. Bar-On, D. Friedmann-Morvinski, D. Peer, and T. Ilovitsh, Low-frequency ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening enables noninvasive lipid nanoparticle RNA delivery to glioblastoma. The Journal of Controlled Release (2025).
B. Glickstein, M. Bismuth, R. Gattegno, R. Aronovich, Y. Feng, and T. Ilovitsh, Volumetric nanodroplets-enhanced ultrasound surgery combined with immune checkpoint inhibition as a cancer therapy platform. Small (2024).
R. Gattegno, L. Arbel, N. Riess, S. Katz, and T. Ilovitsh, Enhanced capillary delivery with nanobubble-mediated blood-brain barrier opening and advanced high resolution vascular segmentation. The Journal of Controlled Release (2024)
K.T. Karlinsky, M. Bismuth, R. Aronovich, T. Ilovitsh, Nonlinear Frequency Mixing Ultrasound Imaging of Nanoscale Contrast Agents. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2023).
M. Bismuth, S. Katz, T. Mano, R. Aronovich, D. Hershkovitz, A. A. Exner, and T. Ilovitsh, Low frequency nanobubble-enhanced ultrasound mechanotherapy for noninvasive cancer surgery. Nanoscale 14, 13614-13627 (2022).
T. Ilovitsh, et al. "Low-frequency ultrasound-mediated cytokine transfection enhances T cell recruitment at local and distant tumor sites." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020).
