Lab head
Professor Marcelle Machluf, Ph.D
Prof. Marcelle Machluf received her Ph.D. in Biotechnology Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University (Israel). Marcelle went on to complete a 5-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard Medical School under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Atalla. Marcelle joined the Technion in 2001, and received tenure in 2007; in 2014, she was promoted to full professor. Prof. Machluf has authored 40 peer-reviewed journal papers, co-authored 15 papers, and published over 100 conference papers. Her papers have appeared in leading generalized and specialized journals including Nature Biotechnology, Nano Letters, and Blood, and have been cited over 2,500 times, awarding her an h-index of 26 (Google Scholar). Prof. Machluf has supervised more than 40 graduate and post-doctoral students, from around the world, and is teaching four undergraduate and graduate courses in nano-encapsulation, tissue engineering, mammalian cell technologies, and bioprocessing. Prof. Machluf is a member of the TargetCaRe consortium, under Horizon 2020 Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014). Prof. Machluf is the head of a six-year collaboration between six groups from the Technion and two of Singapore’s leading universities (NTU and NUS) funded by the National Research Foundation of Singapore. Prof. Machluf is a member of the Minerva Programme Committee, under the Max-Planck Institute (Germany) and a member of the Tissue Engineering Journal editorial board. Prof. Machluf is the Head of the Technion’s Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Biotechnology and was recently appointed as the Deputy Executive Vice President for Research For the Pre-clinical Research Authority of the Technion.
E-mail: machlufm@tx.technion.ac.il
Management
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Post & Graduate Students
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Dr. Anton Zernov, Ph.D., postdocAnton completed his M.Sc and Ph.D. in bioengineering and biotechnology in the Faculty of Biology, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Federal Research Centre “Fundamentals of Biotechnology”, Russian Academy of Science. Now he is currently a postdoc. His research focuses on the development and investigation of mesenchymal stem cells membrane-derived nanoghosts with encapsulated gold nanoparticles for diagnostics and photodynamic therapy of cancer. Also, his interests include the development and investigation of clean meat. Anton received the Herschel Rich innovation award in 2022. E-mail: zernovanton89@gmail.com |
Avraham Fridman, M.Sc, Ph.D. studentAvraham completed his B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Engineering at the Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem, completed his M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is currently a Ph.D. student. His research focuses on the applications of Nano-Ghosts from mesenchymal stem cells for inflammation therapy and as a drug delivery system with the capacity to pass across the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) targeting brain inflammation. Avraham has received the PBC Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students. E-mail: favremi89@gmail.com |
Rotem Hayam, M.Sc, Ph.D. studentRotem completed her B.Sc in the Faculty of Chemistry Engineering at the Technion and is currently a Ph.D. student. Her research focuses on the development of advanced Extracellular Matrix processing technologies for Tissue Engineering. E-mail: rotemh27@gmail.com |
Michal Skitel-Moshe, M.Sc, Ph.D. studentMichal completed her B.Sc in Biotechnology at the Hadassah Academic College and is currently a Ph.D. Student. Her research focuses on Extracellular Matrix (ECM) based therapy for diabetes. In this research, the ECM is engineered as microcapsules to support islets viability. Michal has received the Ariane de Rothschild scholarship, given to female Ph.D. students for academic excellence. E-mail: michalsk@campus.technion.ac.il |
Shani Hamias, M.Sc, Ph.D. studentShani completed her B.Sc in the Faculty of Chemistry Engineering at the Technion and is currently a Ph.D. student. Her research focuses on a novel drug delivery system aimed to selectively target brain cancer across the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) using MSCs derived vesicles (nano-ghosts). E-mail: shanihm17@gmail.com |
Anastasia Brandis, M.Sc, Ph.D. studentAnastasia completed her B.Sc. in the Faculty of Biology at the Herzen University, completed her M.Sc. in biotechnology at the ITMO University in Saint-Petersburg and is currently a Ph.D. student. Her research is focused on an inflamed cardiac tissue treatment using MSCs derived vesicles (Nano-ghost) as a drug delivery system. E-mail: Brandis@campus.technion.ac.il |
Shira Levi, M.Sc, Ph.D. studentShira completed her B.Sc in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion and is currently a Ph.D. student. Her research focuses on the development of scaffolds for cultured meat. Shira received the Herschel Rich innovation award in 2020 as well as the Rotary Excellence Award for academic excellence in 2021. E-mail: shiralevi147@gmail.com |
Frank (Feng-Chun) Yen, M.Sc, Ph.D. studentFrank (Feng-Chun) Yen completed his B.Sc in the Department of Biological Science and Technology at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and is currently a Ph.D. student. His research focuses on developing cultured meat platforms based on scalable cellular building blocks. Frank is also establishing efficient and scalable culturing methodologies using bioreactor. E-mail: frankyyen86@gmail.com |
Shay Bamany, M.Sc studentShay completed his B.Sc in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion and is currently an MSc student. His research focuses on creating a safe and potent immunization platform against SARS-CoV-2 using mesenchymal stem nano-vesicles (Nano-Ghosts). E-mail: shay.bamany@gmail.com |
Amir Betker, M.Sc studentAmir completed his B.Sc in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion and is currently an M.Sc student. His research focuses on creating an immunotherapeutic system using mesenchymal stem nano-vesicles (Nano-Ghosts). |
Yehonatan Zur, M.Sc studentYehonatan completed his B.Sc in the Faculty of Chemistry Engineering at the Technion and is currently a M.Sc student. His research focuses on creating a specialized graft for diabetic leg treatment. E-mail: zur.yehonatan@gmail.com |
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