Advanced nanomaterials for the sonodynamic therapy of solid tumors: Challenges and Opportunities

Prof. Alejandro Sosnik received his Pharmacy degree from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires in 1994. In early 1997, he emigrated to Israel where after obtaining the pharmacist license, he continued his graduate studies, receiving M.Sc. (equivalency, 1998) and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Cohn (2003). In 2003-6, Prof. Sosnik spent a postdoctoral in the laboratory of University Professor Michael Sefton at University of Toronto. Between 2006 and 2013, he was tenured Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires and Staff Investigator of the National Science Research Council of Argentina. In early 2014, Prof. Sosnik was appointed Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology where he founded the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Nanomaterials Science, being promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 2020. His research interests comprise drug self-assembly and crystallization phenomena and processing, polymer and macromolecular chemistry, biomaterials science, colloidal chemistry, hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials, mucoadhesive drug delivery systems, nanomedicine, cancer infectious diseases, and sono-dynamic therapy of cancer. He is the co-author of >190 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, editorials and book chapters, co-inventor in several patents and patent applications related to biomedical and pharmaceutical innovation and editor of two books.