Assoc. Prof. Yosi Shamay

Yosi Shamay, PhD

Associate Professor with Tenure

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

  

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel | Ph.D. | 2012 | Clinical Pharmacology and Chemistry

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel | M.Sc. (summa cum laude) | 2008 | Clinical Pharmacology and Chemistry

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel | B.Sc. (cum laude) | 2005 | Chemistry

 

POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT

10.2024-present Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion

10.2024-present Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion

10.2018-9.2024 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion

10.2013-9.2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

10.2012-10.2013 Research Fellow, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

  

PATENTS

Patents granted

2008 Co-Inventor, US7146108P, Vascular delivery systems – Licensed to Vaxil – Bio therapeutics

2010 Co-Inventor, CA2800153A, Caged cell penetrating peptide-polymer conjugates for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

2014 Co-Inventor, PCT/US2015/026362, Fucoidan nanogels and methods of their use and manufacture

2016 Co-Inventor, WO/2016/130546, Dye-stabilized nanoparticles and methods of their manufacture and therapeutic use.

2016 Co-Inventor, Application PCT/US2016/050916. Capture device for detection of malignant cells in blood and methods thereof.

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Submitted patents (Provisional or PCT)

2019 Co-Inventor, Pl3K Inhibitors and uses thereof.

2019 Main Inventor, Automated Literature Meta-Analysis using Hypothesis Generators and Automated Search.

2022 Main Inventor, Indolium Based Stabilizers of Hydrophobic Drugs

2023 Main Inventor, Single Domain Antibodies Directed Against Nectin-4 and ROR1