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Wwe celebrated the first successful PhD graduation in our group. Congratulations Dr. Bamberger! All the best for your future endeavours!

Great work Matthias and Lydia, congrats!! The paper describes a new, versatile method for the preparation of protein-based nanoparticles for the delivery of therapeutics.
M. Fach, L. Radi, P. R. Wich, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (45), 14820–14823. (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b06243)

Marie joins our team for her Master thesis – She will develop polysaccharide-based polymers for the formation of dynamic nanomaterials.
Welcome and good luck with your experiments!

T. Schirmeister, J. Kesselring, S. Jung, T. H. Schneider, A. Weickert, J. Becker, W. Lee, D. Bamberger, P. R. Wich, U. Distler, S. Tenzer, P. Johé, U. A. Hellmich, B. Engels

The “Junge Akademie” was newly established in May 2016 and consists of selected young scientists from various fields (literature, music and natural sciences). The Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz is part of the National Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities and represents the biggest of the 8 national academies with members from all over Germany

Elena and Matthias are joining our Team – Good luck with your experiments!

We published our new textbook for organic chemistry! 1176 pages, 4000 chemdraws, over 10000 molecules. After being long, long in the works… our new textbook is now finally officially available!
It is a ground up revised edition, restructured into 38 chapters covering all class of organic molecules in to areas of structure & properties, isolation & synthesis and reactions & applications. Compared to…

As one of four young scientists at JGU Mainz Ira Schmid (PhD student in our research group) was invited to participate at the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau. The focus is on the scientific exchange between Nobel Laureates and leading young scientists from the disciplines of medicine and physiology, physics and chemistry. This year 650 outstanding undergraduate students, PhD students and postdocs…

The Gutenberg Academy brings up to 25 of the University’s best PhD students and artists together and provides them with the chance to participate in an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas at the highest intellectual level. They also have the possibility to interact with excellent researchers and artists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), who have been appointed to the academy, as well as with…

Ioanna and Laura are joining us for their Bachelor thesis – Good luck with your experiments!