We’re based at the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung in Dresden, Germany. The scope of our team’s work is devoted to two key areas that includes theranostics and polymer-based sensing technologies. Our work on theranostics involves the synthesis and functionalisation of specific nanoparticle architectures for achieving desirable bio-nano interactions in vivo. The goal in this pursuit is to overcome the biologically-imposed barriers against nanomedicine, towards achieving successful treatment/diagnosis of disease. Our work on polymer-based sensing involves high-precision synthesis of unique polymer architectures that have integrated fluorophores throughout the structures. These new surfaces take the concept of “touch”-based sensing towards the nanoscale, where changes in polymer conformation can be spatially-resolved towards optical resolution.

We have expertise in:

• High precision polymer and nanoparticle synthesis
• Fluorescence coupling
• Drug delivery systems
• In-blood interactions
• Theranostic imaging
• Bioanalysis (enzymatic / biopolymer activity)
• Immune cell associations
• Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM)
• Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)
• Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
• Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) chemistry
• Bio-Nano interactions
• Dynamic light scattering
• Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy