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Yanjun Lan, who is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Zurich is joining our group for a 4-month internship. She will work on the preparation of novel metal-containing PNAs for medicinal applications.

Jeannine Hess, who has just finished her MBsc. in chemistry at the University of Zurich, is starting her Master thesis in our laboratories. She will work on the preparation of novel organometallic anthelmintic drugs.

Our new freeze dryer financed by the Alfred Werner Legat Foundation has just arrived! As shown on the picture below, 24 different samples can be lyophilized at the same time. Welcome to the group, freeze dryer! Anna in front of

Our perspective article “Organometallic Anticancer Compounds” was accepted in J. Med. Chem. This paper reports on the recent advances in the discovery of organometallics with proven anti-proliferative activity. A special emphasis has been made on the compounds, whom molecular targets

Michael Kaiser, who is currently undertaking his BSc at the University of Zurich is joining the group as a voluntary laboratory assistant. He will work with Anna Leonidova on the preparation and utilisation of new metal-containing bioconjugates for medicinal and

Anna Leonidova, who has just finished her Msc. in molecular and biological chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), is starting her PhD thesis endowed with a SNSF grant. She will work on the preparation and utilisation

Our paper “Preparation, 99mTc-Labeling and Biodistribution Studies of a PNA Oligomer Containing a New Ligand Derivative of 2,2´-Dipicolylamine” was accepted in J. Inorg. Biochem. This paper presents the facile preparation of a novel bifunctional chelating for 99mTc (DPA-N3). Dpa-N3 was

Tanmaya Joshi from the group of Prof. Leone Spiccia, Monash University, Australia, is joining the group for three months as an exchange PhD Student. He will work on the preparation of new Ru-containing PNA oligomers.

On the 19th of April 2010, the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, together with Rubitec Ltd has announced the results of the competition to elect the best patent application submitted in 2009 at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The patent application of Gilles and