News

10.10.2012: Erica´s paper "DropletMicroarray: Facile Formation of Arrays of Microdroplets and Hydrogel Micropads for Cell Screening Applications" has been accepted to Lab on a Chip. Congratulations!

20.09.2012: A patent application describing a novel type of cell- and bacteria-resistant coating has been submitted to the European Patent Office. Congratulations to Erica and Junsheng! The work is a cooperation with the Schwartz group in IFG, KIT.

01.08.2012: Linxian´s paper on combinatorial synthesis of vectors for gene-delivery via thiol-yne click chemistry has appeared online in Biomaterials

10.07.2012: Martin Maiwald and Felix Braun join our group as internship students to continue projects started by Aniket and Asritha.

01.07.2012: Kubilay Demir finishes his PhD in the group of Prof. Boutros (DKFZ) and joins our group as a postdoc. Welcome! Kubilay is going to work on the application of our superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic microarrays for the high-throughput cell screening.

22.07.2012: Our new paper "A Biomimetic Lipid Library for Gene Delivery through Thiol-Yne Click Chemistry" has been just accepted to Biomaterials. Congratulations to Linxian!

21.07.2012: A patent application describing the DropletArray method - a new application of superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic micropatterns - has been submitted to the European Patent Office. Congratulations to Erica!

10.06.2012: Proposal for a non-contact liquid dispenser system (100.000€) was supported by the Helmholtz Association.

01.06.2012: Asritha Nallapaneni and Aniket Gudadhe join our group as interns for summer. Welcome!

25.05.2012: Our paper on "Printable Superhydrophilic−Superhydrophobic Micropattern" was just accepted to Langmuir. Congratulations to Junsheng, Erica, Linxian and Asritha!

15.04.2012: Incella GmbH is founded! Incella is a startup that will commercialize new gene- and drug-delivery systems developed in our group and in collaborations. The first product – highly efficient transfection reagent ScreenFect – is already on the market. ScreenFect is a result of the work of Linxian in collaboration with the group of Dr. Gary Davidson. More info is on the website: www.incella.com

15.04.2012: Our website is updated.

01.04.2012: Conny joins our group as a technical assistant. Welcome!

20.11.2011: Congratulations to Florian who has joined the group of Yi Liu in Berkeley (LBNL) (http://foundry.lbl.gov/liugroup/index.html) as an intern student.

01.09.2011: Xin, Bai and Girish join the group as PhD students. All have received external scholarships to pursue their graduate work. Congratulations and welcome!

30.05.2011: Results of Florian’s and Erica’s work are accepted to Angewandte Chemie

20.05.2011: Results of David’s work are published in Advanced Materials [Link]

01.04.2011: Barbara Kwiatkowska joined the group as a master student.

29.12.2010: EU patent application based on Florian´s results is submitted with the help of the KIT and the Müller-Boré & Partner law firm [Link]

09.12.2010: Results of Florian´s research work lead to receiving the Helmholtz-Enterprise grant for opening a start-up company. More information can be found at the Helmholtz Association website [Link] or at the KIT website [Link]

01.12.2010: Victoria Nedashkivska joined the group

01.11.2010: Erica Ueda joined the group

01.09.2010: Junsheng Li joined the group

01.08.2010: Alexander Efremov has joined the group

01.06.2010: Linxian Li joined the group

01.01.2010: Die Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft fördert fünf neue Nachwuchsgruppen
am KIT. Damit können fünf herausragende junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in Karlsruhe ihre eigenen Forschungsgruppen aufbauen und leiten. [Link]

Jede Nachwuchsgruppenleitungsstelle ist mit einem Jahresbudget von mindestens 250.000 Euro über fünf Jahre ausgestattet. [Link]