Shlomo Margel

Shlomo Margel
Born	(1945-10-09) October 9, 1945 (age 79) Israel
Citizenship	Israeli
Alma mater	Bar Ilan University Weizmann Institute of Science
Known for	Nanotechnology for Biomedical applications
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry, Nanomaterials
Institutions	Bar-Ilan University
Doctoral advisor	Moshe Levy
Other academic advisors	Fred C. Anson (Caltech) Alan Rembaum (Caltech)

Shlomo Margel (Hebrew: שלמה מרגל; born 9 October 1945) is a Professor of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University specializing in polymers, biopolymers, functional thin films, encapsulation, surface chemistry, nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology and agro-nanotechnology.[1]

Early life

Shlomo Margel[2] was born in 1945 in Israel during the Mandate era into a seven-generation Jerusalemite family. The Margel family descended from the Loewy (Hebrew: לעווי),[3][4] Menachem Mendel (Hebrew: מנחם מנדל משקלוב) and Rivlin families. Their family trees merged several generations ago[5][6] and they were all students of the Vilna Gaon (HaGra).[7]

Academic career

He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1976, followed by three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 1988 he joined the Bar-Ilan Department of Chemistry[8] and has risen through the ranks to full professor in 1994. Margel was a visiting scientist in DuPont Central Research, Wilmington, Delaware, in the University of Ulm, Germany, in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Institute for Soldiers' Nanotechnologies.[9] Margel chaired the Bar-Ilan Chemistry Department (1999-2001),[10] served as the dean of the Bar-Ilan Faculty of Exact Sciences (2002-2003)[11] and was the Bar-Ilan dean of students (2011-2014).[12] He was the head of the National Committee for Chemistry in High School Education (2000-2003)[13] and the president of the Israel Chemical Society (2006-2009).[14] The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities designated him to be the Israeli chairman of the National Committee of Chemistry towards IUPAC during 2010-2013. In addition, during 2014-2017 he served as the president and head of the Washington College for Education, Yavne.[15] In 2016, Prof. Margel was chosen to lead the establishment of a new agro-nanotechnology center in the Volcani Institute for Agriculture, Beit Dagan.[16][17]

Scientific interests and publications

Margel earlier interests included electrochemistry of vinylic monomer and polymers,[18] polyaldehyde microspheres[19][20] and self-assembly monolayers.[21] His current research focuses on functional polymeric nano/micro-particles for medical[22][23] and industrial applications,[24] surface modification,[25][26] and functional thin coatings (self-cleaning,[27] anti-biofouling,[28] UV absorbers,[29] anti-fogging[30] and superhydrophobic coatings[31]). Prof. Margel is a world pioneer and gained international reputation in the area of nanotechnology, particularly in the design of functional nano- and micrometer-sized particles of very narrow size distribution for medical and industrial applications. Many of his publications were collected to a book titled "Recent advances in polymers & nanotechnology".[32]

During his career, Prof. Margel supervised over 100 students. He has over 300 peer-reviewed articles in print, which were cited nearly 8,100 times. Margel has published many book chapters on various aspects of nanoparticles and functional thin coatings, won about 75 national and international research grants and has about 40 patents and patent applications.[33][34]

Among his previous awards were the Dr. Chaim Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellowship for Scientific Research, established by the Myron A. Bantrell Trust (1976-1978); Shmuel Yaroslavsky Memorial Prize for Study on the Development of Microspheres for Medical Applications, awarded by the Scientific Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1984); M. Landau Grant Foundation for Achievement in the Area of Polymers, awarded by Mifal HaPayis (1989); Taubenblat Prize for studies on Bioactive Wound Dressing & Particles (2003); The Elias, Genevieve and Georgianna Atol Charitable Trust Fellow in Nanomedicine (2003) and the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS)[35] Excellency Award for Research (2014).[34]

Personal life

Shlomo Margel is married to Hannah Margel, a Ph.D. in Science Teaching from the Weizmann Institute of Science.[36] They live in Rehovot and have four children and seven grandchildren.

References

1. Message from the Editors, "Agro-nanotechnology in the Volcani Center", Volcani Voice, Vol.4, September 2017
2. Prof. Margel, Bar-Ilan University Research Authority
3. Our forefathers at the gates of Jerusalem - from the disciples of the Vilna Ga'on following his Torah, the genealogy of the Levine family, Jerusalem, 2011. In Hebrew: אבותינו בשערי ירושלים - מתלמידי הגר"א בעקבות תורתו, ירושלים, ה'תשע"ח
4. ספר היחס למשפחת לווין - כתב ר' יצחק דויד אשר לעווין, דפוס האחים רוחלר, ירושלים, ה'תרפ"ט
5. Morgenstern, Arie (2007). The Return to Jerusalem: The Jewish Resettlement of Israel, 1800-1860. Shalem Center Press. ISBN 978-965-7052-40-2.
6. אלעזר הורביץ, מוסד היסוד תולדות ראשית היישוב בירושלים על ידי תלמידי הגר"א
7. a.k.a. Perushim (Hebrew: עליית תלמידי הגר"א), disciples of the Vilna Gaon who left Lithuania at the beginning of the 19th century to settle in the Land of Israel.
8. Prof. Margel's Lab - Chemistry Department, Bar-Ilan University
9. The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
10. Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University
11. Bar-Ilan Faculty of Exact Sciences
12. Bar-Ilan, Dean of Students website
13. The Israeli National Committee for Chemistry in High School Education
14. Israel Chemical Society (ICS)
15. Givat Washington College of Education
16. Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center
17. Volcani Voice, Vol.4, September 2017
18. Flanagan, James B.; Margel, Shlomo; Bard, Allen J.; Anson, Fred C. (1978). "Electron transfer to and from molecules containing multiple, noninteracting redox centers. Electrochemical oxidation of poly(vinylferrocene)". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 100 (13): 4248–4253. doi:10.1021/ja00481a040. ISSN 0002-7863.
19. Margel, S.; Beitler, U.; Offarim, M. (1982). "Polyacrolein microspheres as a new tool in cell biology". Journal of Cell Science. 56 (1): 157–175. doi:10.1242/jcs.56.1.157. PMID 7166562.
20. Margel, S.; Marcus, L. (1989). "Specific Hemoperfusion Therapy". Chemtech. 19: 238.
21. Margel, S.; Vogler, E. A.; Firment, L.; Watt, T.; Haynie, S.; Sogah, D. Y. (1993). "Peptide, protein, and cellular interactions with self-assembled monolayer model surfaces". Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 27 (12): 1463–1476. doi:10.1002/jbm.820271202. ISSN 0021-9304. PMID 8113233.
22. Skaat, Hadas; Chen, Ravit; Grinberg, Igor; Margel, Shlomo (2012). "Engineered Polymer Nanoparticles Containing Hydrophobic Dipeptide for Inhibition of Amyloid-β Fibrillation". Biomacromolecules. 13 (9): 2662–2670. doi:10.1021/bm3011177. ISSN 1525-7797. PMID 22897679.
23. Rudnick-Glick, S.; Corem-Salkmon, E.; Grinberg, I.; Yehuda, R.; Margel, S. (2015). "Near IR fluorescent conjugated poly(ethylene glycol)bisphosphonate nanoparticles for in vivo bone targeting in a young mouse model". Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 13 (1): 80. doi:10.1186/s12951-015-0126-0. ISSN 1477-3155. PMC 4650844. PMID 26577112.
24. Tal, Nimrod; Rudnick-Glick, Safra; Grinberg, Igor; Natan, Michal; Banin, Ehud; Margel, Shlomo (2018). "Engineering of a New Bisphosphonate Monomer and Nanoparticles of Narrow Size Distribution for Antibacterial Applications". ACS Omega. 3 (2): 1458–1469. doi:10.1021/acsomega.7b01686. ISSN 2470-1343. PMC 6044825. PMID 30023805.
25. Margel, Shlomo; Cohen, Ella; Dolitzky, Yehudit; Sivan, Orit (1992). "Surface modification. I. Polyacrolein microspheres covalently bonded onto polyethylene". Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. 30 (6): 1103–1110. doi:10.1002/pola.1992.080300617. ISSN 0887-624X.
26. Brandriss, Sergio; Margel, Shlomo (1993). "Synthesis and characterization of self-assembled hydrophobic monolayer coatings on silica colloids". Langmuir. 9 (5): 1232–1240. doi:10.1021/la00029a014. ISSN 0743-7463.
27. Gutman, Ori; Natan, Michal; Banin, Ehud; Margel, Shlomo (2014). "Characterization and antibacterial properties of N-halamine-derivatized cross-linked polymethacrylamide nanoparticles". Biomaterials. 35 (19): 5079–5087. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.02.056. ISSN 0142-9612. PMID 24695094.
28. Natan, Michal; Gutman, Ori; Lavi, Ronit; Margel, Shlomo; Banin, Ehud (2015). "Killing Mechanism of Stable N-Halamine Cross-Linked Polymethacrylamide Nanoparticles That Selectively Target Bacteria". ACS Nano. 9 (2): 1175–1188. doi:10.1021/nn507168x. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 25602279.
29. Cohen, Sarit; Haham, Hai; Pellach, Michal; Margel, Shlomo (2016). "Design of UV-Absorbing Polypropylene Films with Polymeric Benzotriaziole Based Nano- and Microparticle Coatings". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9 (1): 868–875. doi:10.1021/acsami.6b12821. ISSN 1944-8244. PMID 28005334.
30. S. Margel, M, Kolitz Domb, et.al. "Proteinoid compounds, process of preparing same and uses thereof". US patent application 0042827 (2017).
31. S. Margel, Sharon Bretler, Sarit Cohen and Naftali Kanovsky. "In-situ thin coating of silica particles onto plastic films and their applications" US Provisional Patent Application No. 62/645,839 (2018).
32. Margel, Shlomo (2022). Recent advances in polymers & nanotechnology. London: Index of sciences. ISBN 9798836372194.
33. Shlomo Margel, Google Scholar
34. Prof. Shlomo Margel's website, Bar-Ilan Faculty of Exact Sciences
35. The Israel Vacuum Society (IVS)
36. Margel, Hannah; Eylon, Bat-Sheva; Scherz, Zahava (2008). "A longitudinal study of junior high school students' conceptions of the structure of materials". Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 45 (1): 132–152. doi:10.1002/tea.20214. ISSN 0022-4308.