ICRS | The Israeli Chapter of the Controlled Release Society

09:00 – 11:05

PAT – Session 12: Polymers in food-tech

Chair: Ronit Bitton, Ben-Gurion University

Stav Peled¹, Shay Freilich², Yechezkel Kashi², Yoav D. Livney¹
¹Laboratory of Biopolymers for Food and Health, *livney@technion.ac.il, Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
²Laboratory of Applied Genomics, Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Oligosaccharide-lactoferrin conjugate particles for selective targeting of proteins to probiotic bacteria in the colon

Maya Davidovich-Pinhas^1,2, Eden Shlush¹
¹Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
²Russel Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Environmentally friendly bioplastic from renewable source

Maya Kleiman^1,2, Tali Sayas¹, Kumari Pallavi¹
¹Vegetables and Field Crops, Volcani Institute, Rishon Lezion, Israel
²Agro-NanoTechnology and Advanced Materials Center, Volcani Institute, Rishon Lezion, Israel
Synthetic systems as a novel tool in agriculture

Alon Romano, Hila Tarazi Riess, Uri Lesmes, Shlomit David
Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Macromolecular properties governing the impact of charged polysaccharides on bioaccessibility of bioactive peptides and bioactive lipophilic nutraceuticals

Ran Suckeveriene
Department of Water industry engineering, Kinneret Academic College, Zemach, Israel
Grafting of polyaniline by a dynamic inverse emulsion polymerization technique onto membranes as an anti-biofouling agent: An innovative approach

09:25 – 11:05

ICRS – Session 13: Extracellular vesicles, liposomes, and cell-derived drug delivery systems

Chair: Marcelle Machluf, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Bat-Hen Eylon, Noa Ben David, Neta Shimony, Eden Perle, Leonid Galperin, Boaz Mizrahi, Adi Gross
Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Multi-Armed polymers: Fundamentals to applications

Avi Schroeder
Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Israel
Tumor type and patient gender affect nanomedicine efficacy

Ayelet David
Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Drug-free biomedical polymers to control the recruitment of immune and circulating cancer cells into inflamed tissues

Assaf Zinger¹, Caroline Cvetkovic, Manuela Sushnitha¹, Tomoyuki Naoi¹, Gherardo Baudo¹, Enrica De Rosa¹, Jenny Chang², Morgan Anderson, Arya Shetty, Ennio Tasciotti¹, Francesca Taraballi¹, Nupur Basu, Jennifer Covello, Ennio Tasciotti, Moran Amit
¹Center for Musculoskeletal Regeneration; Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Houston Methodist Academic Institute; Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
²Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Tx, USA
Enhancing inflammation targeting using tunable leukocyte-based biomimetic nanoparticles

11:05 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00

ICRS – Session 14: Students short talk presentations

Chair: Rosa Azhari, Azrieli College of Engineering

Gal Chen^1,3, Shira Landau², Rotem Levin³, Omer Adir^3,4, Maya Kaduri³, Jeny Shklover³, Janna Shainsky-Roitman³, Shulamit Levenberg², Avi Schroeder³
¹Department of Chemical Engineering, The Interdisciplinary Program for Biotechnology, Technion –Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
²Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
³Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory for Targeted Drug Delivery and Personalized Medicine Technologies, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
⁴Department of Chemical Engineering, The Norman Seiden Multidisciplinary Program for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Technion –Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Engineering artificial cells to promote angiogenesis in living tissues

Liyona Kampel^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}, Meir Goldsmith^3,4,5,6,7, Srinivas Ramishetti^3,4,5,6,7, Nuphar Veiga^3,4,5,6,7, Daniel Rosenblum^3,4,5,6,7, Anna Gutkin^3,4,5,6,7, Sushmita Chatterjee^3,4,5,6,7, Moran Penn¹, Galya Lerman1, Dan Peer^3,4,5,6,7, Nidal Muhanna^1,2
¹The Head and Neck Cancer Research Laboratory, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
²The Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
³Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
⁴Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
⁵Department of Materials Sciences & Engineering, Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
⁶Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
⁷Cancer Biology Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Therapeutic inhibitory RNA in head and neck cancer via functional targeted lipid based nanoparticles

Patricia Mora-Raimundo^1,2,3, Daniel Lozano^2,3, Miguel Manzano^2,3, Maria Vallet-Regi^2,3
¹Chemical Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, The Louis Family Laboratory for Targeted Drug Delivery and Personalized Medicine Technologies, Haifa, Israel
²Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER- BBN), Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER- BBN), Madrid, Spain
³Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Osteoporosis remission and new bone formation through nanoparticle based treatment

Roni Sverdlov Arzi, Noy Cohen, Alejandro Sosnik
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Cancelled

Nethanel Friedman¹, Arie Dagan1, Jhonathan Elia², Sharon Merims³, Ofra Benny¹
¹The Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
²Department of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Hadassah Ein-Karem hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
³Sharet Institute of Oncology, Hadassah Ein-Karem hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
Physical properties of gold nanoparticles affect skin penetration via hair follicles

Eilam Yeini¹, Paula Ofek¹, Sabina Pozzi¹, Nitzan Albeck¹, Dikla Ben-Shushan¹, Galia Tiram¹, Sapir Golan¹, Ron Kleiner¹, Ron Sheinin⁶, Sahar Israeli Dangoor¹, Shlomit Reich-Zeliger⁷, Rachel Grossman⁵, Zvi Ram⁵, Henry Brem³, Thomas Hyde⁴, Prerna Magod², Dinorah Friedmann-Morvinski², Asaf Madi6, Shiran Ferber¹, Rainer Haag⁸, Marcelo Calderón⁸, Ronit Satchi-Fainaro¹
¹Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
²Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
³Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
⁴Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
⁵Department of Neurosurgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
6Department of Pathology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
⁷Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
⁸Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
P-Selectin is a novel immune checkpoint in glioblastoma which can be exploited as a target for drug-delivery

Avraham Fridman, Marcelle Machluf
Biotechnology & Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Development of nanoghosts as targeted therapy for multiple sclerosis

Shani Tsirkin, Riki Goldbart, Tamar Traitel, Joseph Kost
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev‎, Beer-Sheva‎, Israel
Effect of polymeric microbubbles properties on their performance as acoustic cavitation enhancers for therapeutic applications

Shani Hamias, Marcelle Machluf
Biotechnology and Food engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Nano-ghosts for drug transport across the blood-brain barrier

Ron Kleiner¹, Daniella Vaskovich-Koubi¹, Sabina Pozzi¹, Eilam Yeini¹, Anat Eldar-Boock¹, Helena F. Florindo², Ronit Satchi-Fainaro¹
¹Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
²Pharmacy, ²Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Designing dendritic cell-targeted nanovaccine for the treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Daniella Vaskovich-Koubi¹, Rita Acúrcio², Ron Kleiner¹, Barbara Carreira², Ana I. Matos², H.F. Florindo², Ronit Satchi-Fainaro¹
¹Physiology and Pharmacology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
²Pharmacy, Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
A Nano-sized system sensatizing colorectal cancer to immunotherapy

Michal Skitel, Marcelle Machluf
Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Studying ECM-microcapsules as a niche for the entrapment of pancreatic islets

Marie Ruetter, Nenad Milošević, Yvonne Ventura, Ayelet David
Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Drug-free polymer-peptide conjugates for attenuation of pro-inflammatory leukocyte recruitment to the metastatic tumor microenvironment

Katerina Tischenko, Yifat Brill-Karniely, Ofra Benny
Institute for Drug Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Israel
Studying the “Phagocytic” behavior of cancer cells in different mechanical conditions

Yael Diesendruck^1,2,3,4, Nuphar Veiga^1,2,3, Meir Goldsmith^1,2,3, Itai Benhar^1,4, Dan Peer^1,2,3,4
¹Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
²Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
³Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
⁴Cancer Biology Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Targeting relaxin receptor as a therapeutic approach for ovarian cancer

Ebaston Thankarajan, Gary Gellerman, Leonid Patsenker
Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
Antibody guided, activatable NIR photosensitizer for targeted photodynamic cancer therapy with reduced side-effects

Awanish Kumar¹, Avi Domb²
¹School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
²School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Solid lipid pickering particles: A versatile material for various applications

Eliana Steinberg, Ofra Benny
Institute for Drug Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Israel
“Tumor on a chip”: A physiological mimicking method for personalized therapy in cancer

11:30 – 13:00

PAT – Session 15: Polymer based encapsulation systems

Chair: Dan Lewitus, Shenkar – Engineering Art Design

Rayan Alyan¹, Muhammad Abdel-Haq¹, Kareem Abd-Rbo², Haytam Kasem², Aiman Abu Ammar1
¹Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Biomimetic PLGA-based adhesive films with mushroom-shaped microstructures as drug delivery systems

Meital Zilberman
Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Gelatin-Alginate hydrogels as bioadhesives, drug delivery systems and scaffolds for tissue engineering (VIRTUAL)

Ronit Bitton
Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Tuning the properties of multicomponent polysaccharide-peptide hydrogels

Noam Steinman, Abraham J. Domb
School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Nanoparticles based on the cyclopropenium cation

13:00 – 14:15

Lunch

14:15- 16:30

ICRS- Session 16: Imaging, biosensors, and theranostics in controlled release

Chair: Boaz Mizrahi, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Daniel Heller^1,2, Daniel Tylawsky^1,2, Praveen Raju^4,5,9, Hiroto Kiguchi¹, Matthew Greenblatt³, Jake Vaynshteyn⁵, Jeffrey Gerwin⁵, Janki Shah¹, Matija Snuderl⁸, Yosi Shamay⁷, Emma Grabarnik¹, Zvi Yaari¹
¹Molecular Pharmacology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
²Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, Ny, USA
³Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, Ny, USA
⁴Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, Ny, USA
⁵Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
⁷Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
⁸Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
⁹Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
Nanomedicines to effect and interrogate transendothelial transport (VIRTUAL)

Twan Lammers
Nanomedicine and Theranostics, RWTH Aachen University Clinic, Aachen, Germany
Imaging and Biopsy Biomarkers in Cancer Nanomedicine (VIRTUAL)

Shady Farah
The Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), The Laboratory for Advanced Functional/Medicinal Polymers & Smart Drug Delivery Technologies, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Controlled crystalline based drug delivery systems for long-term therapies

Josue Snitman
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Advanced in vitro inhalation Lung-on-Chip platforms for preclinical research

Ebaston Thankarajan¹, Dvir Poplinger¹, Alisa Zaporozhets¹, Andrii Bazylevich¹, Lena Tuchinsky², Arkadi Hesin², Olga Semenova¹, Leonid Patsenker¹, Gary Gellerman¹
¹Chemical Sciences, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
²Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
Theranostic targeted drug delivery – new insights into diagnosis and treatment of cancer

14:15- 17:00

PAT – Session 17: Polymers with unique structures

Chair: Yoav Livney, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Jacob Klein
Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
The Wiley life achievement award lecture: Polymers and their assemblies under confinement: from brushes and coronas (the good kind) to biolubrication

Eylon Yavin¹, Odelia Tepper¹, Rawan Mahajna¹, Hadil Onalla¹, Salam Maree¹, Vera Paviov², Olga Klebanov², Aviram Nissan², Reuven Reich¹, Daniel Appella³
¹School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
²General and Oncological Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel
³Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institutes of Health, NIDDK, Bethesda, USA
cpFIT-PNAs as molecular probes for RNA diagnostics

Raviv Dharan¹, Asaf Shemesh¹, Abigail Millgram¹, Ran Zalk⁵, Gabriel A. Frank⁴, Yael Levi-Kalisman², Israel Ringel³, Uri Raviv¹
¹Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
²Institute of Life Sciences and The Harvey M. Krueger Family Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
³Institute for Drug Research, The School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
⁴Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
⁵The National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Hierarchical assembly pathways of tubulin conical-spiral architectures

Oz Gazit
Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Polymer-based surfaces for the promotion of C-C coupling through cooperative catalysis

Einat Chetrit¹, Sabina Sharma², Uri Maayan¹, Maya Pelah¹, Ziv Klausner³, Ionel Popa², Ronen Berkovich^1,4
¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
²Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
³Department of Applied Mathematics, The Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel
⁴The Ilze Katz Institute for Nanoscience and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
History dependent kinetics captured in sequential unfolding of polyproteins over a range of loads

Dan Lewitus^1,2, Anat Gelfand², Keren Amsalem², Paula Berman², Gil Lewitus², David Meiri², Dan Lewitus¹
¹Department of Polymer Materials Engineering, Shenkar – Engineering Art Design, Ramat-Gan, Israel
²Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
2.5D printing of sustained-release polymeric microdepots for whole plant medical cannabis delivery

16:45 – 17:00

ICRS Coffee Break

16:45- 19:00

ICRS – Session 18: Immunotherapy

Chair: Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Tel Aviv University

Vered Padler-Karavani
Cell Research & Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Immunotherapy targeting cancer glycosylationImmunotherapy

Alessio D. Nahmad, Adi Barzel
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
In vivo engineered B cells retain memory and secrete high titers of anti-HIV antibodies in mice

Dinorah Friedmann-Morvinski
., Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Nanoparticles for enhanced CAR T therapy for brain tumors

Natali Artzi
Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Engineering cancer immunity using biomaterials (VIRTUAL)

Helena Florindo
Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Health Technologies, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Na, Portugal
Targeted nanovaccine as a powerfull platform to improve immune modulation and checkpoint therapies (VIRTUAL)

17:00 – 17:20

PAT Coffee Break

17:20- 18:50

PAT – Session 19: Students presentations

Chair: Eylon Yavin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Lena Neufeld¹, Eilam Yeini¹, Noa Reisman¹, Yael Shtilerman¹, Dikla Ben-Shushan¹, Sabina Pozzi¹, Asaf Madi², Galia Tiram¹, Ronit Satchi-Fainaro^1,3
¹Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
²Department of Pathology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
³Sagol School of Neurosciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Micro-engineered perfusable 3D-bioprinted glioblastoma model for in-vivo mimicry of tumor microenvironment

Assaf Simon¹, Zhenzhen Zhang², Clarissa Abetz², Martin Held², Anke-Lisa Höhme², Erik Schneider², Tamar Segal-Peretz¹, Volker Abetz^2,3
¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
²Institute of Membrane Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany
³Institute of Physical Chemistry, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hybrid organic-inorganic isoporous membranes with tunable pore sizes and functionalities for molecular separation

Neta Shimony¹, Alona Shagan¹, Bat-hen Eylon¹, Abraham Nyska², Adi Gross¹, Boaz Mizrahi¹
¹Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
²Consultant in Toxicologic Pathology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Liquid co-polymers as biodegradable surgical sealant

Mor Maayan
Biochemistry and Food Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Fluorine-free superhydrophobic coating with antibiofilm properties based on pickering emulsion templating

Or Galant¹, Sabrina Spatari¹, Charles E. Diesendruck²
¹Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
²Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Flow photochemistry in single-chain polymer nanoparticle synthesis

Noga Yaakov¹, Karthik Ananth Mani¹, Reut Amar Feldbaum¹, Magen Lahat¹, Noam Da Costa², Eduard Belausov³, Dana Ment², Guy Mechrez¹
¹Department of Food Sciences, Volcani Institute, Rishon LeZion, Israel
²Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Volcani Institute, Rishon Lezion, Israel
³Department of Ornamental Plants and Agricultural Biotechnology, Volcani Institute, Rishon Lezion, Israel
Single cell encapsulation via pickering emulsion for biopesticide applications

Omer Adir^1,2, Ravit Abel^1,2, Mia Albalak¹, Lucien Weiss^3,4, Gal Chen^1,5, Amit Gruber⁶, Oskar Staufer^7,8, Jeny Shklover¹, Janna Shainsky¹, Ilia Platzman^7,8, Lior Gepstein^6,9, Yoav Shechtman^3,4, Benjamin Horwitz¹⁰, Avi Schroeder¹
¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
²The Norman Seiden Multidisciplinary Program for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
³Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
⁴Lorry Lokey Interdisciplinary Centre for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
⁵The Interdisciplinary Program for Biotechnology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
⁶The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
⁷Department for Cellular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
⁸Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering (IMSE), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
⁹Cardiology Department, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
¹⁰Faculty of Biology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Synthetic cells with self-activating optogenetic proteins communicate with natural cells

Orit Bronner, Amit Cohen, Einat Nativ-Roth, Raquel Isidoro Silva, Netta Vidavsky
Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
The effect of pH on collagen structure and permeability

Konda Reddy Kunduru¹, Luna Rizik¹, Mahran Daifa¹, Eid Nassar Marjiya¹, Neta Kutner¹, Merna Shaheen-Mualim¹, Shady Farah^1,2
¹The Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
²Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Superior Long-Lasting Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Bleaching Polymers

19:30- 22:00

Gala dinner event