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A warm welcome to our new Master student Sandro Konatschnig who has joined the group today. Sandro will work on the elaboration and biological evaluation of novel metal-based drug candidates.

Congratulations to Tanmaya for his paper which has been just accepted by Inorg. Chem.! In this full article, the preparation, on the solid support, of Ru-containing PNA oligomers is described. Importantly, the presence of these Ru bioconjuates could be detected

After a few weeks holiday, Jeannine is starting her PhD thesis in our group. Good luck and lots of success!

Last Saturday, we had a “raclette evening” to celebrate the coming festive season. 3.7 Kg of cheese (we were only 10…) and a few bottles of wine later, Anita and Danny were declared the winners of the evening – they

Congratulations to Jeannine who brilliantly passed her Master exam! You can see nice pictures of the after-exam party here! After a few well-deserved weeks of holiday, Jeannine will start her PhD thesis in our group in January 2012.

Two papers have been just accepted. In an article in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., we report on the first preparation of di-hetero-organometallic-containing Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) Bioconjugates. In the second paper which has been accepted in Dalton Trans., we describe

We have profited of the stunning autumn weather in Zurich to take a few pictures of our group. Have a look at them here!

Sarah Spreckelmeyer, who is currently undertaking her Master in Pharmacy at the Technical University in Braunschweig (Germany) is joining our group for 2 months as an exchange student. Welcome Sarah!

Dr. Malay Patra, who has just finished his PhD thesis at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Nils Metzler-Nolte is joining our group as a post-doc. Welcome Malay!

Check out in our cover gallery the front cover picture of our latest Dalton Trans. paper