Professor Avi Schroeder
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Avi Schroeder is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, where he heads the Laboratory for Targeted Drug Delivery and Personalized Medicine Technologies. Dr. Schroeder conducted his Postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and his PhD jointly at the Hebrew and Ben Gurion Universities.
Avi is the recipient of more than 40 national and international recognitions, including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a KAVLI Fellow, and being awarded the Intel Nanotechnology Award, the TEVA Pharmaceuticals Award, and the Wolf Foundation Krill Award. Avi is the author of over 80 papers, the inventor of 23 patents, and co-founder of multiple startup companies based on these discoveries.
Schroeder is a former member of the Israel Young National Academy of Sciences, Israel’s National Council for Civilian Research and Development, and the President of the Controlled Release Society (CRS).
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