Overview

The Israeli chapter of the Controlled Release Society (ICRS) (registered as The Israeli Society for Controlled Delivery of Bioactive Materials) is a not-for-profit national organization, with offices in Jerusalem and Karmiel. ICRS was conceived in 1996 as the Israeli local chapter of Controlled Release Society (CRS), a multinational organization that is devoted to the advancement of the science and technology of controlled release. ICRS is a multi-disciplinary society dedicated to the science and technology of controlled release and delivery of drugs, biological and agrochemical agents and food, and promoting education by releasing science to deliver a better future. The science of controlled release represents the research discipline based on the understanding the interactions between the active molecule, the delivery system and the biological or environmental barriers. ICRS serves 250 members from Israel, half of the membership representing industry and the other half, academia. Volunteers from academia and industry perform the various executive and administrative functions and tasks. The mission of ICRS is to advance the science and technology of controlled release systems for the temporal delivery of substances for agricultural, veterinary, cosmetic, medicinal and household applications.