Small: Nanomolar Synthesis in Droplet Microarrays with UV-Triggered On-Chip Cell Screening
Marius´ first first-author paper has been now accepted in Small. Congratulations to Marius and our great collaborators, Sergiy Afonin, Stefan Heissler! đ
"Nanomolar Synthesis in Droplet Microarrays with UV-Triggered On-Chip Cell Screening"
Two Tony B. Awards to Maximilian and Marius
Congratulations to Marius and Max, who both just won Tony B. Travel Awards to attend the SLAS conference next year in San Diego. Well done and congrats!
HeiKa Project with Heidelberg
Congratulations to Anna, who just won another grant - HeiKa, which is a cooperation with Dr. Sevin Turcan from Heidelberg University, who works on brain tumor biology. Well done Anna!
Personalized Medicine: joined PhD position. KIT & Heidelberg University
Joined Ph.D. thesis between Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and University of Heidelberg.
Development of prognostic test on-a-chip for personalized oncology
If you are interested, contact: Dr. Anna Popova (anna "dot" popova at kit "dot" edu) or PD Dr. Sascha Dietrich (sascha"dot"dietrich at embl "dot" de)
Starting date: January 1, 2020
Duration: 3 years
Qualification: cell and molecular biology, cancer biology
More information: here
Advanced Therapeutics paper accepted
Congratulations to Anna! Our invited review on "Precision medicine in oncology: in vitro drug sensitivity and resistance test (DSRT) for selection of personalized anti-cancer therapy" is accepted for publication in Advanced Therapeutics. Well done.
ERC Consolidator Grant presentation in Brussels
Pavel Levkin presents his ERC Consolidator Grant in front of the reviewers board in Brussels. Fingers crossed.
Zhenwu Wang joins our lab as a PhD student.
Welcome, Zhenwu.
100 research publications
The Levkin Lab just reached 100 journal publications. Congratulations to all group members and all of our collaborators.
DMA goes Personalized Medicine and HT-Mass Spectrometry
Three projects have been funded by the Ministry of Science and Art of Baden-Württemberg (MWK). One project (PI Dr. Anna Popova) is a strong collaboration with the University Hospital in Heidelberg (Dr. Sascha Dietrich) and will focus on the development of a novel personalized medicine approach to address cancer treatment. The other two projects focus on further development of different aspects of the droplet microarray platform for cell screenings and mass-spectrometric readouts. We also thank and congratulate our collaborator - the group of Prof. Carsten Hopf (HS Mannheim/CeMOS). Congratulations to Anna, Max and Dorothea!
Möbius ring
Have a look at this nice cover for our recent Advanced Functional Materials paper:
Professor Azizian joins our lab as a visitor
Welcome!
Alisa's manuscript has been accepted to Materials Today Bio
The manuscript titled "Solid-phase combinatorial synthesis using microarrays of microcompartments with light-induced on-chip cell screening" will be online soon - congratulations to Alisa and all of her co-authors!!!
Aquarray wins a major EU grant
Congratulations to the whole team of Aquarray, especially Simon and Anna, for winning an important EU grant (SME Instruments) of about 1,7M€! This grant will accelerate Aquarray´s development of precision medicine products and will help enter the market of Personalized Medicine. It is especially exciting to receive such an award where success rate is just about 3-5%...
https://www.clustercollaboration.eu/news/h2020-call-proposals-sme-instrument
KIT is one of 11 Universities of Excellence
We are happy that KIT was selected as one of the 11 Universities of Excellence. A total of approximately €148 million will be available annually for all Universities of Excellence.
I congratulate all our colleagues at the KIT and especially all the students, postdocs and TAs who worked in our group and made their contribution to this success.
Other Universities of Excellence include: RWTH Aachen University, Berlin University, University of Bonn, Dresden University of Technology, University of Hamburg, Heidelberg University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Konstanz, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, University of Tübingen.
New group picture
Our new group picture for 2019 is out! As evidenced by the crowd - we keep on growing:
3rd place at the NEULAND - Innovation Competition goes to... Maximilian Benz
We are glad to congratulate Max Benz for receiving the 3rd prize for his chemBIOS approach at the NEULAND Innovation Competition at the KIT yesterday.
Professor Zhu joins our lab as a visitor
Welcome!
Nature Communications paper out!
Check out our paper in Nature Communications: “Marrying chemistry with biology by combining on-chip solution-based combinatorial synthesis and cellular screening”. Great paper highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research. Congrats Max and all co-authors!
Teaching old materials new tricks!
Check out our new paper in AFM. We demonstrate rapid photodegradability of commonly used polymethacrylate hydrogels without the need to incorporate additional photolabile functionalities.
Special issue of Advanced Materials about KIT
Check this excellent special issue of Advanced Materials about materials research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Lots of exciting research!