Jordan and Alec brought the group donuts as they are finishing their summer projects and continuing in their second year at the university.
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ACS Inaugural Kavli Foundation Innovation in Chemistry Lecture
Virgil’s ACS Inaugural Kavli Foundation Innovation in Chemistry Lecture was attended by more than 1500 listeners in 2011. It was among the highlights of the International Year of Chemistry 2011.
The group members were glad to receive T-shirts from Virgil, made for the group, in honour of this lecture.
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Undergraduate students start in the group
REU summer program students Molly Roesch and Dayeon Kang and undergraduate students Alec Lewis and Jordan Lewis start in the group. They will undertake research for new sequence-defined ionizable amphiphilic Janus dendrimer (IAJD) delivery systems for mRNA and studies of Kevlar-like aramidoid and aramid structures.
Juncheng Lu is awarded the Master of Chemical Sciences Capstone Award
At the University of Pennsylvania’s 266th Commencement ceremony, group member Juncheng Lu (Luke) was awarded the Master of Chemical Sciences Capstone Award for his Capstone project titled “Targeted Delivery of mRNA with One-Component Multifunctional Sequence-Defined Ionizable Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimers”. Luke received the award together with his Master of Chemical Sciences diploma during the ceremony.
César Rodriguez-Emmenegger interview as he starts a position of ICREA Professor at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia
Former member César Rodriguez-Emmenegger interview is highlighted on Advanced Science News.
César was born in the north of Uruguay. He graduated from the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) as a Chemical Engineer. Later he moved to Prague to pursue his PhD in Biophysics, Chemical and Macromolecular Physics at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Charles University in Prague. During his PhD, César visited the group of Prof. W. T. S. Huck in Cambridge University (Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Prof. V. Percec in University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) as part of research stay. With the support of an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, he worked in the group of Prof. C. Barner-Kowollik in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany) and subsequently, he was a visiting scholar at Prof. Percec group, working on living radical polymerization of (meth)acrylamide water soluble monomers and the synthesis of Janus dendrimers. He established his junior group first in IMC Prague and later in DWI Aachen and is now moving to the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia in Spain. In his interview, he says “Be passionate, creative, and bold”.
Please see the interview here.