Marcelle Machluf

Marcelle Machluf received her PhD in Biotechnology from the Ben-Gurion University, after which she went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard Medical School. Since joining the Technion in 2001, Marcelle’s research focused on the bioengineering of drug and gene delivery systems, and of cell-based and cell-free therapies. Prof. Machluf’s papers appeared in leading journals including Nature Biotechnology, Nano Letters, and Blood, and have been cited over 3,200 times. In 2017 Marcelle was appointed Head of the Faculty of Biotechnology & Food Engineering. Prof. Machluf is also the President of the Israeli chapter of the Controlled Release Society and holds an Adjunct Professor position at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.