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19.02.2024 - Sonja joins us for her MSc semester project, where she will also be working on exciting new chelating agents for copper. Welcome, Sonja! 

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05.02.2024 - Maurin joins us for his BSc thesis, where he will be working on exciting new chelating agents for copper. Welcome, Maurin! 

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01.01.2024 - Yaël joins us as a research assistant in drug development. Welcome, Yaël!

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31.10.2023 - Today was Sophie's last day with us. All the best, Sophie! 

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02.10.2023 - Erica joins us as a research assistant in drug development. Welcome, Erica! 

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25.09.2023 - Luca defended his PhD thesis, entitled "From Bioinspired Scaffolds to Genetically Encoded Libraries: The Quest for Next-Generation Chelating Agents for Lead". Luca delivered an excellent lecture and passed his exam! We are excited to continue having Luca with us, now as a postdoc! 

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15.09.2023 - After 4.5 years, Tagwa finally defended her PhD thesis, entitled "Short Peptides as Selective Chelating Agents for Lead Detoxification". Tagwa delivered an excellent lecture and passed her exam! We are excited to continue having Tagwa with us, now as a postdoc! 

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02.08.2023 - Janik joins our group for his master's thesis in business and chemistry. Janik's role will be to support the creation and strategic planning of our startup, metaLead. Welcome, Janik!   

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01.03.2023 - Sophie joins us as a research assistant in drug development. Welcome, Sophie! 

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24.11.2022 - Ilaria successfully defended her master's thesis. Good luck with your next steps! 

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14.09.2022 - Florian joins us for his bachelor thesis, where he will explore a new class of peptides. Welcome, Florian! 

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08.09.2022 - Tagwa received the best oral presentation award in medicinal chemistry at the Swiss Chemical Society, Fall Meeting. Great Job, Tagwa! 

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31.08.2022 - Tanja successfully defended her master's thesis. Good luck with your next steps! 

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25.08.2022 - Rubens successfully defended his bachelor thesis. Good luck with your next steps! 

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03.08.2022 - Our paper is featured on the front cover of ChemMedChem! 

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20.07.2022 - Aaron successfully defended his bachelor thesis. Good luck with your next steps! 

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29.06.2022 - Our cyclic octapeptides are highlighted in ChemistryViews! 

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13.05.2022 - Luca's and Ayca's publication on GSH-inspired octapeptides is out in ChemMedChem. Congrats! 

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07.02.2022 - Rubens joins us for his bachelor's thesis. He will work on new approaches for bioremediation. Welcome, Rubens! 

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03.12.2021 - Luca's and Tagwa's work on glutathione analogs is out in Inorganic Chemistry. Congrats! 

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20.09.2021 - Tanja re-joins our group, this time for her master's thesis where she will explore our genetic libraries. Welcome back, Tanja! 

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17.09.2021 - Ayca successfully defended her thesis today! Good luck with your next steps! 

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08.09.2021 - Tagwa's work from her Master's thesis with the Takemoto group is published in Angewandte Chemie as a hot paper! Congrats, Tagwa!  

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18.08.2021 - Max successfully defended his bachelor's thesis today. All the best in your next steps! 

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16.08.2021 - Maria Ilaria joins us for a master's thesis where she will work on a new strategy for on-resin cyclization of our cyclic peptides. Welcome, Ilaria! 

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08.07.2021 - Luca's review in CHIMIA is online!

05.07.2021 - Aaron and Tanja join us for a bachelor thesis and a semester project, respectively. Tanja will work with Luca on new cyclic tetrapeptides and Aaron on exciting genetic library construction.  Welcome! 

28.06.2021 - Pietro joins our group as a summer intern from the University of Manchester. Pietro will work on our genetic libraries project. Welcome! 

23.03.2021 - Tagwa's and Christoph's manuscript is published in Angewandte Chemie! Congrats!! 

22.02.2021 - Max and Simone join our group; Max as a bachelor student and Simone as a high-school intern. Welcome! 

18.01.2021 - Sheng-Jan joins us for a semester project. Welcome! 

05.01.2021 - Tanja presented her bachelor thesis. Good luck with your next step! 

18.12.2020 - Daniel presented his bachelor thesis. Good luck with your next step!