Yoed Rabin
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Courtesy Appointment, Biomedical Engineering
Yoed Rabin joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. Since then, Rabin held primary academic positions at the Division of Surgical Oncology and the Department of Human Oncology at Allegheny University of the Health Sciences—affiliated with Hahnemann University Hospital (1994-1998), the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology (1997-2000), and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at CMU (2000-).
Rabin has a broad range of research interests in areas of energy modalities in biology and medicine, including cryopreservation (the preservation of tissues in low temperatures), cryosurgery (the destruction of cancer by freezing), hyperthermia (the destruction of cancer by heating), thermal regulation of the human body, blood flow, and medical imaging. Research activity at the Biothermal Technology Laboratory (BTTL), which Rabin heads, integrates the development of sensors, instrumentation, surgical devices, measurement techniques, physical modeling, numerical methods, computation tools, and thermal design.
Education
1994 D.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion, The Israel Institute of Technology
1991 MS, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
1989 BS, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Media mentions
CMU Engineering
New modeling approach helps advance cryopreservation
Cryopreserving tissues and organs without damaging them requires a delicate dance through thermodynamic principles. CMU’s Biothermal Technology Laboratory has a new modeling approach for it.
National Institutes of Health
Rabin recognized for cryopreservation work
MechE’s Yoed Rabin has been recognized multiple times for his work with cryopreservation. Rabin received two grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Mechanical Engineering
Biothermal pursuits
Introduced to cryopreservation of organs and tissues as a master’s student, Purva Joshi decided to pursue a Ph.D. to continue this research in the Biothermal Technology Laboratory.
Rabin elected to Board of Governors of International Society of Cryosurgery
MechE's Yoed Rabin has been elected to the 20th Board of Governors of the International Society of Cryosurgery (ISC).
Rabin receives funding from NIH for nanowarming research
Recently, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded the Biothermal Technology Lab at CMU, headed by MechE’s Yoed Rabin, a research grant for nearly $500,000.
Cryopreservation a possible solution for storing and preserving donor organs
MechE’s Yoed Rabin and Michael Taylor were among 42 scholars who co-authored a report calling for the reemergence of organ-preservation technology.
Mechanical Engineering
Transforming medicine through organ and tissue preservation
Rabin and collaborators discuss the promise of organ and tissue preservation to transform medicine.
Rabin highlights importance of engineering in cryopreservation
MechE’s Yoed Rabin sees engineering as integral to the necessary improvements needed in the cryopreservation of human tissue.
Mechanical Engineering
Organ banking: mechanical engineers have the know-how
Carnegie Mellon University’s Yoed Rabin is the lead author of a feature article in the May 2017 issue of Mechanical Engineering Magazine, a publication of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Rabin gives keynote at Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering conference
MechE’s Yoed Rabin will deliver a keynote lecture at the 5th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering.
Digital Trends
Rabin's cryopreservation research featured in Digital Trends
A paper published by MechE’s Yoed Rabin and collaborators from University of Minnesota, Clemson University, and biotech company Tissue Testing Technologies was recently featured in Digital Trends. The team has developed a new “nano-warming” technique that allows frozen organs to be quickly reheated in a way that doesn't damage them.
ABC News
Rabin featured in ABC News
MechE’s Yoed Rabin was featured in an ABC News article about nanotechnology and cancer detection.