Prof. Meital Zilberman Department of Biomedical Engineering  The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv 69978  Israel Address: The multi-disciplinary Building, room 413  Phone: +972-3-6405842  Fax:    +972-3-6407939 E-mail: meitalz@eng.tau.ac.il

Research Interests

  Bioresorbable polymeric biomaterials

  Active implants

  Process-> microstructure -> property effects in bio-polymers

  Controlled release of drugs and proteins from bioresorbable structures

  Tissue Engineering

Education

    1998  Ph.D., Faculty of Materials Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

    1994 M.Sc., Faculty of Materials Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

    1990  B.Sc., Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

   Active Implants for Various Applications 

   Controlled Release Systems 

   Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering 

   Polymeric Materials 

   Reviews articles and Book Chapters 

Research Projects 

    Novel composite fibers with drug delivery for medical implants and tissue regeneration applications. 

    Antibiotic-eluting bioresorbable film structures for preventing bacterial infections associated with medical implants. 

    Highly porous bioresorbable scaffolds with controlled release of bioactive agents for tissue regeneration applications. 

   A new class of bioactive and bioresorbable soybean-based scaffolds for tissue regeneration applications. 

    Mathematical models for predicting drug and protein release profiles from bioresorbable films and fibers.