Dr. Tali Ilovitsh

I received my B.Sc. (2010), M.Sc. in a direct track (2011), and Ph.D. (2016) degrees in electrical engineering from Bar Ilan University, Israel. My Ph.D. research in the field of optical imaging was focused on the development of super-resolution techniques for microscopy. Between 2016-2019 I was a postdoctoral researcher at Prof. Katherine Ferrara lab, initially at University of California Davis, and then at Stanford University School of Medicine, where I was working in the fields of ultrasound therapy and imaging. Since 2019 I am a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. My ultimate goal is to develop medical ultrasound technologies that provide non-invasive, cost effective, real-time and safe monitoring, diagnostics, and therapy for clinically relevant problems. 

Since 2019      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.

Developing new medical ultrasound technologies. 3D ultrasound, super resolution, ultrasound beam shaping, image processing and machine learning. Therapeutic ultrasound coupled with microbubbles for drug delivery, gene therapy, blood brain barrier opening, thermal and mechanical ablation

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).

T. Ilovitsh, A. Ilovitsh, J. Foiret, C.F. Caskey, J. Kusunose, B.Z. Fite, H. Zhang, L.M. Mahakian, S. Tam, K. Butts-Pauly, S. Qin, and K.W. Ferrara, “Enhanced microbubble contrast agent oscillation following 250 kHz insonation”. Scientific Reports, 8, 1-15 (2018).

T. Ilovitsh, A. Ilovitsh, J. Foiret and K.W. Ferrara, “Imaging beyond ultrasonically-impenetrable objects”. Scientific Reports, 8, 575901-575911 (2018).

T. Ilovitsh, A. Ilovitsh, J. Foiret, B.Z. Fite and K.W. Ferrara, "Acoustical structured illumination for super-resolution ultrasound imaging". Communications Biology, 1, 1-11 (2018). 

T. Ilovitsh, A. Ilovitsh, A. Weiss, R. Meir and Z. Zalevsky, "Three dimensional imaging of gold-nanoparticles tagged samples using phase retrieval with two focus planes". Scientific Reports, 5, 154731-154739 (2015).

T. Ilovitsh, A. Weiss, A. Meiri, C. G. Ebeling, A. Amiel, H. Katz, B.M. Green and Z. Zalevsky, "K-factor image deshadowing for three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy". Scientific Reports, 5, 137241- 1372410 (2015).