Meet our Associate Editor, Assaf Zinger

We are delighted to introduce you to our new RSC Pharmaceutics Associate Editor Assaf Zinger.

Dr. Assaf Zinger is a leading researcher and educator specializing in nanomedicine and engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute in Texas, USA. Dr. Zinger’s research focuses on biomimetic nanoparticles, covering various fields from biochemical engineering, where he designs and tests these nanoparticles, to biomedical engineering, where he assesses their effectiveness against conditions like neurodegenerative diseases, brain injuries, and cancers. Read more about Dr. Zinger here.

 

Read some of Dr Zinger’s research here:

Unleashing the potential of cell biomimetic nanoparticles: Strategies and challenges in their design and fabrication for therapeutic applications

Assaf Zinger

J. Controlled Release, 2023, 358, 591-600.

 

Enhancing Inflammation Targeting Using Tunable Leukocyte-Based Biomimetic Nanoparticles

Assaf Zinger, Manuela Sushnitha, Tomoyuki Naoi, Gherardo Baudo, Enrica De Rosa, Jenny Chang, Ennio Tasciotti and Francesca Taraballi

ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 6326-6339.

 

RSC Pharmaceutics is a new gold open access journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry and publishes research focused on formulating a drug into a medicine, with the intention of achieving controllable drug delivery with high efficacy. This journal is now open for submissions.