Dafna Knani
ORT Braude College, Israel
Biography
Dafna Knani is a senior Lecturer at the department of Biotechnology Engineering, ORT Braude College. She is an organic polymer chemist, graduated from the chemistry faculty, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. In the past, she worked for Surgical bio-polymeric materials start-up company as a research polymer chemist (developing adhesives for hard tissues) and as a research chemist and project leader at Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL), IMI-Institute for R&D. Her current research focuses on molecular modeling of materials and biomaterials. Some of her research topics are simulation of systems used for controlled drug release and tissue engineering and computational design of polymer additives. Since 2014 she serves as the head of MSc program in biotechnology.
Abstract
Abstract : Simulation of DBS, DBS-COOH and DBS-CONHNH2 as hydrogelators