Shulamit Levenberg

Shulamit Levenberg (born 1969 in Israel) is an Israeli professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She is the head of the Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory and served as the Dean of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering from 2016 to 2020. Her research focuses on tissue engineering from stem cells, vascularization of engineered tissues, and cell differentiation on polymeric scaffolds. She earned her Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Biology from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She then completed a direct Ph.D. track in Molecular Cell Biology at the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Professor Benjamin Geiger. She worked at MIT for five years as a research associate in the lab of Professor Robert Langer. In 2011–2012, she spent a sabbatical year as a visiting professor at Harvard University.

In 2018, she received the Rappaport Prize for Biomedical Research in the Senior Researcher category. She was awarded the Bruno Memorial Award in 2019. Most recently, in 2023, she was elected as a Fellow of the American National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Personal life Levenberg is married to Yehuda, and they have six children. They live in Moreshet, a communal settlement in the Misgav Regional Council in the Lower Galilee region of Israel.