Born in Jerusalem in 1955, the guiding light for EhudShapiro's scientific endeavors was the philosophy of science of Karl Popper, with which he became acquainted through a high-school project supervised by Moshe Kroy from the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University.
Shapiro served in the Israeli Defense Forces from 1973 till 1977 as a tank's crewman, commander and officer, followed by undergraduate studies in Tel Aviv University in Mathematics and Philosophy, completed with distinction in 1979.
EhudShapiro lives in Nataf, a small village nestled in the Judea Mountains, with his three boys Yonatan (15), Boaz (13) and Haggai (11).
EhudShapiro, of the Departments of Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics, and Biological Chemistry, the team included research students Yaakov Benenson, Binyamin Gil, Uri Ben-Dor and Dr.
Shapiro: It is clear that the road to realizing our vision is a long one; it may take decades before such a system operating inside the human body becomes reality.
EhudShapiro's research is supported by the M.D. Moross Institute for Cancer Research, the Samuel R. Dweck Foundation, the Dolfi and Lola Ebner Center for Biomedical Research, the Benjamin and Seema Pulier Charitable Foundation, and the Robert Rees Fund for Applied Research.