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Organic synthesis Targeting ligands for cancer cell biomarkers – Chemical functionalization of bioceramics – Coating and post-functionalization of metal oxide imaging nanoparticles – Polymer modification and characterization – Hydrogel microspheres for cell immobilization
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The research activities of our group are devoted to the development of new chemical entities for bio-applications. We are mainly interested in the design, synthesis and evaluation of functionalized nanomaterials and biomaterials for therapeutic applications as imaging probes, theranostics and cell transplantation devices.

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NEWS

PhD defense © 2020 EPFL

Congratulations to Luca!

— On February 13th, 2020, Luca passed her PhD thesis defense. The jury, chaired by Prof. Vassily Hatzimanikatis, was composed of Dr Yanick Fanton (Beta-Cell, Belgium), Prof. Igor Lacík (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia) and Dr Ruud Hovius (EPFL).

Master student © S. Gerber / 2020 EPFL

Welcome to Perrine!

— Perrine Robin, Master student at Chimie Paris Tech and Ecole Normale Supérieure (Lyon), joined the lab on 03.02.2020 for her Master thesis. She will work on the fucntionalization of chitosan-based copolymers for gene delivery.

A. Gheata © 2020 EPFL

Welcome to Adrian!

— Adrian Gheata joined our group for his PhD thesis. He will develop functionalization pathways on harmonic nanoparticles for drug screening and multimodal imaging applications.

PhD defense-GBF© S. Gerber / 2020 EPFL

Congratulations to our new Dr ès Sciences!

— The public thesis defense of Raphaël took place on Friday, January 10th 2020. He received the PhD degree for his research on the functionalization of harmonic nanoparticles for targeted cancer imaging and multimodal imaging applications.

Drug release from HNPs © S. Gerber / 2019 EPFL

The paper of Jérémy in Helvetica Chimica Acta has just been accepted!

— Congratulations to Jérémy for his paper entitled "Photocontrolled release of the anticancer drug chlorambucil with caged harmonic nanoparticles".

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