Maytal Avrashami (phD student)

Maytal Avrashami is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion.

As an undergraduate, she researched an automated method for producing nanoparticles from FDA-approved cancer drugs.

During her M.Sc., her work focused on developing personalized nanomedicine for liver cancer.

Her Ph.D. research centers on evaluating drug and cell penetration in co-culture tumor spheroids using automated microscopy to improve cancer therapy.

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Publications:

M. Avrashami, D. Niezni, D. Meron Azagury, H. Sason, and Y. Shamay, “Green/red fluorescent protein disrupting drugs for real‐time permeability tracking in three‐dimensional tumor spheroids,” Bioeng. Transl. Med., p. e10731, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1002/btm2.10731. Link

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D. Niezni, Y. Harris, H. Sason, M. Avrashami, and Y. Shamay, “Polydopamine Copolymers for Stable Drug Nanoprecipitation,” Int. J. Mol. Sci., vol. 23, no. 20, p. 12420, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.3390/ijms232012420. Link

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D. Niezni, H. Taub-Tabib, Y. Harris, H. Sason, Y. Amrusi, D. Meron-Azagury, M. Avrashami, S. Launer-Wachs, J. Borchardt, M. Kusold, A. Tiktinsky, T. Hope, Y. Goldberg, and Y. Shamay, “Extending the boundaries of cancer therapeutic complexity with literature text mining,” Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 145, p. 102681, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102681. Link

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N. Zoref, N. Opatovski, E. Nehme, M. Avrashami, I. Barzilai, R. K. Orange, B. Ferdman, O. Alalouf, D. M. Azagury, Y. Shamay, and Y. Shechtman, “Point Spread Function Engineering for 3D Imaging in High-Throughput Microscopy,” presented at the 2023 Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) Conference, Boston, MA, USA, Aug. 14–17, 2023. doi: 10.1364/COSI.2023.JM2B.5. Link