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ABOUT THE GROUP
Our research group is located at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and affiliated with the University of Heidelberg. Our research is focused on the synthesis and application of biofunctional materials, surfaces and nanoparticles.
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Last Saturday, our group participated for the fifth year in a row in the wonderful Dragon Boat Competition in Heidelberg. We were 20 people, lab members, in one boat, competing against other similar teams throughout the day on the beautiful Neckar River. Amazing weather, amazing people, and an amazing time together.
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Congratulations to Julius von Padberg with his first first-author paper just been accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials! Title: Parallel 3D Bioprinting on SLIPS-Microarrays. Great job and a very good publication! Also congrats to the valuable co-authors Julián Serna and Maike Schliephake - great team work! 💪👍.
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Recently Tatiana Starikova and Yüsra Bilgin presented their results at a polymer symposium at the KIT and Yüsra received the first Poster Prize! Congratulations! :)
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One of the most important skills in research is not generating new ideas. The real challenge is something else: finishing. Finishing an experiment. Turning results into a clean graph. Turning graphs into a clear figure. Defining the scope of a project and bringing it to the point where it becomes a manuscript, a paper. This is harder than it sounds. In science, there is always one more control, one more experiment, one more improvement, one more idea to add. And very often, this stretches a project from weeks into months, and from months into years. Learning when to stop is just as important as learning how to start. One of the most valuable scientific skills is not having an idea, but being able to take an idea to completion — without adding much more than what is truly needed. Science does not only reward creativity. It also rewards the discipline to finish.
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Our recent pizza-poster workshop marked the joining of two outstanding research groups to the Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems – Functional Molecular Systems (IBCS-FMS): the group of Lennart Hilbert and the group of Moritz Kreysing
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Last week, our research group met for a three-day Christmas retreat in Forbach in the Black Forest. We combined scientific exchange and interesting presentations with team-building activities in a beautiful winter setting. Including a scenic hike to the Schwarzenbachtalsperre reservoir, a high-quality pizza session and a cheerful Christmas party. 🎁🎄
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Our newest publication in Angewandte Chemie! We synthesized 325 analogues of mirdametinib, screened them on HT29 colon cancer cells, and identified 46 hits that showed equal or even higher activity compared to the clinically approved mirdametinib. Huge thanks to all co-authors—special thanks to our first authors Maximilian Seifermann Julius Höpfner, and Liana Bauer—and to our outstanding collaborators Prof. Dr. Carsten Hopf and Stefan Schmidt from the Center for Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy (CeMOS) in Mannheim!
Check out the paper here.
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This work presents a novel approach for the extraction or addition of substances and purification of chemical synthesis in a miniaturized, high-throughput (HT) manner. It is based on high droplet stability on the Droplet Microarray (DMA), allowing the complete immersion of a miniaturized array with up to 2688 15 nL-droplets into an organic solvent and simultaneous treatment of all droplets. Congratulations to Michelle J. Iwohn and Janne J. Wiedmann!
Check out the paper here.
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Our annual Poster & Pizza workshop between Levkin, Moritz Kreysing and Lennart Hilbert research groups at the institute. It was wonderful to see so many students and posters!
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For several years, our research group has been participating in this exciting event—the Dragon Boat competition on the Neckar River in Heidelberg. It is probably the best team-building activity one can imagine: 19 group members and friends in the same boat, competing against other teams. It was once again an amazing event on the beautiful banks of the Neckar, with Heidelberg Castle on the other side. The times of our three races were 1:21.52, 1:23.77, and 1:15.30 🥳. Thanks to everyone who participated and organized!
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Exciting and important news! Our excellence cluster 3D Matter made to order was funded by the DFG! 🥳
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Congratulations Dr. Maryam for winning the student poster prize at the SLAS Europe conference 2025. Well done! 🥳
- Joint Project on Lipid Nanoparticles
- Group Retreat Spring 2025
- On the Cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials
- Nanoliter Hydrogel Array for Cell Screening and Cell Spheroid Sorting
- Congratulations Dr. Razan and Dr. Joaquín
- Visit at Wiley
- Nanoliter Droplet Manipulations in a Truly Parallel Fashion
- Farewell Max!