Who We Are

Dr. Seah Ling Kuan

Group Leader

ORCID

My group is interested to transform fundamental chemical concepts such as molecular logic gates and catalytic reaction networks into translational molecular platforms for cancer treatment.

Yulian Cheng

PhD student (CSC Scholar)

Tumor-Induced Chemistry

I am interested to carry out new chemistries using the unique chemical features in the TME to develop cancer therapy

Lisa Förch

PhD Student (Max Planck Graduate Center)

Investigating Therapeutic Effects of Macromolecular Compounds in Heterogenic Tumor Models

I am developing advanced in vitro tumor models to study immune–tumor cell interactions and assess how therapeutic proteins modulate metabolic pathways to reprogram the tumor (immune) microenvironment.

Lifan Hu

PhD student (CSC Scholar)

Multimodal Approach for Regulation of Tumor Microenvironment

I am interested in designing multimodal system which includes novel enzyme and chemotherapy for regulating cancer metabolism and remodeling tumor microenvironment.

Bellinda Lantzberg

PhD student

Dynamic Covalent Biomacromolecular Therapeutics for Oncotherapy

I am developing new strategies to prepare responsive protein conjugates using dynamic covalent chemistry to control their delivery and release in the tumor (immune) microenvironment.

Dr. Konrad Maxeiner

Postdoctoral Scientist (Mass Spectrometry)

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Wenwu Peng

PhD student (CSC Scholar)

Self-Illuminating Polymers for Biomedical Application

I would like to devise polymeric materials that creates light and self-activates for photodynamic therapy (PDT) to kill circulating tumor cells and prevent cancer metastasis.

Bachelor and Masters

Alumni

_{Visiting Scientist}

Prof. Dr. Fernando Bergamini (Adjunct Professor, Federal University of Uberlândia)

Lucie Wohlrábová (IOCB, Prague)

_{Postdocs and Graduate Students}

Dr. Bikram Agrawalla (Postdoc) - Scientist, Roche
Assoc. Prof. Liu Fang (Postdoc) - Associate Professor, Guangzhou Chinese University of Medicine
Assoc. Prof. Wang Tao (Postdoc) - Associate Professor, Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Asst. Prof. Dominik Schauenburg (Postdoc) - Assistant Professor, MERLN, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Dr. Maria J.S.A Silva (Postdoc) - Postdoc, NIMSB, Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Jessica Thomas (PhD) - Site leader, Perkin Elmer
Dr. Maksymilian Zegota (PhD) - Scientist, Coriolis Pharma
Dr. Lujuan Xu (PhD, Postdoc) - Assistant Professor, Institute of Medicine,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou
Dr. Marco Raabe (Masters and Bachelor) - JSPS-Humboldt Fellow, Kyoto University
Dr. Pascal Heitel (Masters) - Postdoc, University of Oxford
Dr. Astrid Heck (PhD and Masters) - Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim
Michael Mueller (PhD and Masters)
Darijan Schüler (PhD)
Dr. Leona Lucas Rodrigues (Masters)
Dr. Daniel Kodura (Masters, mentored by Michael Mueller)
Siska Führer (Masters and Bachelor, mentored by Astrid Heck) - PhD, MPI-Dortmund
Johannes Schefer (Masters)
Jan Michael Zoppelt (Masters, mentored by Dominik Schauenburg) - PhD, TU Darmstadt
Eduard Edel (Masters, mentored by Dominik Schauenburg) - PhD, MPIP
Aaron Kwiatkowski (Masters and Bachelor, mentored by Dominik Schauenburg) - PhD, Maastricht University
Dr. Lujuan Xu (PhD) - Assistant Professor, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, China
Dr. Tianjiao Zhou (Postdoc) - Associate Professor, China Pharmaceutical University
Dr. Dominik Schauenburg (Postdoc) - Assistant Professor, Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine (MERLN), Maastricht University
Dr. Maria Silva (Postdoc) - Postdoc, NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Lisbon
Bingjie Gao, Industry

_{Bachelor, Interns and Exchange Students}

Dr. Sybil Obuobi (Otto Bayer PhD Exchange Student)
Diana Moura (Eramus) 
Andreas Pielmeier (MSc Internship, mentored by Dominik Schauenburg)
Anne Blank (Bachelor)
Alexander Mengele (Bachelor)
Achim Keidel (Bachelor)
Konstantin Schneider-Heieck (Bachelor)
Maximillian Zecher (Bachelor)
Kilian Gallo (Bachelor, mentored by Bellinda Lantzberg)
Lena Hammerschmidt (Bachelor, mentored by Bellinda Lantzberg)
Charlotte Schäfers (Bachelor, mentored by Bingjie Gao)
Xin Liang (PhD exchange, Nanyang Technological University)
Guang Liang Yeo (A*STAR intern, Cambridge University)

"[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery."
-Sir Cyril Herman Hinshelwood (1897-1967) English chemist. Nobel prize 1956.