Orit Shefi's Biography

Orit Shefi, Associate Professor, Head of Neuroengineering Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering and Institute of Nanotechnologies and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University Israel

Orit Shefi is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Bar Ilan University, the head of Neuro-engineering laboratory. She is a member of the Bar Ilan Institute of Nanotechnologies and Advanced Materials. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2005 from the Department of Physics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. During the years 2005-2008 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on nanotechnologies for neuronal engineering, 3D platforms for directed neuronal regeneration, magnetic manipulations of cells, and drug delivery tools. She is a member of several editorial boards and in 2015 she was elected as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience – Neural Nanotechnology.

Selected Publications:

Zilony N. et al., Prolonged Controlled Delivery of Nerve Growth Factor Using Porous Silicon Nanostructures, Journal of Controlled Release, 2016.

Antman-Passig M. and Shefi O. Remote magnetic orientation of 3D collagen hydrogels for directed neuronal regeneration, Nano Letters , 2016.

Alon N. et al., Magnetic micro-device for manipulating PC12 cells migration and organization, Lab on a Chip, 2015.

Marcus M., et al., NGF-conjugated iron oxide nanoparticles promote differentiation and outgrowth of PC12 cells, Nanoscale, 2015.