Professor Shlomo Ben-Haim is a well-known entrepreneur in the medical technology field with a long record of building successful companies. He has co-founded medical device and biomedical companies in the fields of cardiology, obesity, diabetes, esthetics and cosmetics, anti-viral medications, deep vein thrombosis prevention, therapy for limb ischemia, and post-stroke and sports injuries rehabilitation. Professor Ben-Haim has held faculty appointments as a Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics, at both Harvard University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
His formal education is in the fields of nuclear physics, mathematics, biomedical engineering, philosophy, and medicine. Prof. Ben-Haim holds over 550 patents and patent applications and has published his research in over 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is also the recipient of a long list of prizes for his research and inventions.