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February 21st, 2024
Congratulations David and Tom!
Every third amino acid in collagen is glycine. We asked whether non-branched glycine homologs, such as β-alanine, can replace glycine in collagen triple helices. We show that while β-alanine in the middle of CMP sequences is incompatible with triple helix formation, terminal β-alanine residues are tolerated. This paper appears in a special issue of Tetrahedron Letters in honor of Prof. Bill Morandi's 2023 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis. Congratulations Bill for the award! external pageRead more
January 24th, 2024
Congratulations Giuseppe!
Giuseppe successfully defended his PhD thesis today.
January 19th, 2024
Congratulations Kota and Tom!
Carbohydrate co-solutes are great stabilizers of collagen triple helices, boosting their melting temperature by as much as 17 °C. However, trehalose, otherwise a superior stabilizing agent for globular proteins, is not a privileged bioprotectant for collagen. external pageRead now in ChemBioChem!
January 18th, 2024
Congratulations Brenno!
Brenno has been awarded the Scholarship Fund of the Swiss Chemical Industry (SSCI) for his research on "Allysine reactive peptide for targeting fibrosis". This fund is a joint initiative of ETH Zurich and the two companies Janssen AG and Givaudan Schweiz AG and has the goal to to support PhD-students in the field of chemistry and applied biosciences during their doctoral studies. Read more
December 29th, 2023
Congratulations Valdrin and Tom!
Our next paper in JACS about Collagen is out now!
With specifically designed salt bridges between (4S)-aminoproline and aspartate residues , the self-sorting of eight different strands into three─out of 512 possible─triple helices could be achieved. Another great collaboration with the Zenobi group who corroborated the specificity by native MS measurements. Congratulations to the entire team! external pageRead more
November 18th, 2023
Congratulations Helma!
Helma has been awarded the Golden Owl for her outstanding performance in teaching. The prize is awarded by VSETH (Verband der Studierenden an der ETH) yearly based on the students' vote to very engaged and enthusiastic lecturers.
We are very proud of you Helma!
Read also the Interview.
November 1st, 2023
Congratulations Bartosz and Jasper!
In collaboration with the de la Escosura Group from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid we've demonstrated that biomolecule hybrids consisting of the H-dPro-Pro-Glu tripeptide, a lipid chain, and a nucleobase form well-defined fibrillar supramolecular assemblies and catalyze the conjugate addition reaction in water. external pageRead more
November 1st, 2023
Congratulations Tom!
Tom has been awarded the Spark Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation! With this independent funding, Tom will investigate the use of bambusuril macrocycles as supramolecular catalysts for sulfonate transfer reactions.
October 2023
CLASSY - ETH's contribution in Organocatalysis
We're thrilled to be part of the external pageCLASSY consortium—where we're reimagining chemical synthesis with our partners from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Universität Graz. Dive into the world of cutting-edge research with the Wennemers group and get a glimpse of our lab at ETH and our groundbreaking work on tripeptide catalysts essential for organic molecule synthesis. More in external pagethis Youtube video.
September 2023
Congratulations Tom!
Congratulations Tom on being awarded the prestigious Branco Weiss Fellowship! Tom was one of 8 recipients of this fellowship out of 424 applicants. He will develop chemical probes for manipulating protein post-translational modifications at the brain–immune system interface. Check out his fellowship profile external pagehere.
August 29th, 2023
Congratulations Tanas, Maurice and Adeline!
Azomethine imines - a surprising reagent for bioorthogonal reactions! Check out our new JACS paper on their selective ligation with isonitriles and their application in cell surface labeling. external pageRead more
August 24th and 25th, 2023
SCS Fall Meeting 2023
Our research group had the opportunity to be part of the SCS Fall Meeting 2023 held in Bern. Alena and Tom captured the audience's attention with their short presentations. In addition, Laura, Adeline, and Frederic showcased their research through informative posters.
The SCS Fall Meeting 2023 was filled with a diverse array of talks and presentations that covered the whole range of chemistry. The opportunity to connect in person with fellow researchers, exchange ideas, and interact in thought-provoking discussions was a great opportunity. A big Thank you! to the organizers for such an amazing event.
August 14th, 2023
Congratulations Bartosz!
The follow-up paper on linear templates for controlled oligomerization is out now in Faraday discussion. external pageRead more
July 28th, 2023
Congratulations Giuseppe and Maurice!
Out now our work on Isonitrileproline (Inp) and its introduction in collagen model peptides! Discover the properties and use of this novel amino acid on Chemistry – A European Journal. external pageRead more
July 17th to July 24th, 2023
International Chemistry Olympiad IChO
The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) took place at ETH between the 17th and the 24th of July, where Helma had the honour of moderating the opening and the closing ceremony. Members of our group also helped as volunteers. Tom, Alena and Maurice created and corrected the peptide question of the written exam and Lena, Laura and Frederic were involved in the assembly and disassembly of the labs for the practical part of the IChO. The link to the recording of the opening and closing ceremony, where Helma together with the comedian Jane Mumford explains that chemistry is everywhere, why we are all bags full of molecules and what snakes and chemistry have to do with each other can be found below:
- Opening Ceremony: external pageLink to Video
- Scene 1 with comedian Jane Mumford: external pageLink to Video
- Scene 2 with comedian Jane Mumford, the chemical snake: external pageLink to Videoexternal page
- Closing Ceremony: external pageLink to Video
July 15th, 2023
Congratulations Alena!
Alena received the 2023 Chemistry Travel Award by the Platform Chemistry of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) and the Swiss Chemical Society. She will attend the Gordon Research Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes and present a poster entitled ‘Organocatalytic Synthesis of Chiral Triflones Bearing Two Non-Adjacent Stereogenic Centers’.
June 15th, 2023
Congratulations Tom!
Tom received a Poster prize for his poster entitled 'The Yin and Yang of How N-terminal Acyl Caps Affect Collagen Triple Helices' at the 2023 Gordon Research Conference on Bioorganic Chemistry in Andover, New Hampshire, USA.
June 29th, 2023
Congratulations Bartosz!
Bartosz received a Poster prize for his poster entitled 'Catalytic length-controlled oligomerization with synthetic programmable templates' at the 17th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC 2023) in Reykjavik.
June 16th, 2023
Check out the image video of our Department on research, teaching, and campus life. See how diverse the Department is and learn how chemistry helps to find solutions for current challenges. If you watch carefully, you will find faces from the Wennemers group in the video.
May 31st, 2023
Congratulations Bartosz and Martin!
Just published in EurJOC: development of highly selective D-glucose-based aryl crown ether receptors of amino acid ester hydrochlorides in water. external pageRead more
May 25th, 2023
Congratulations Tom and Rahel!
Our next paper about stability of collagen triple helices is out.
"explode or implode": The effect of various N-terminal capping groups in combination with different frames was investigated. This nice work was featured as the front cover of the September issue of Biomacromolecules. external pageRead more Cover
May 6th, 2023
Congratulations Triple Phoenix team!
Members from our group participated in the annual SOLA-Stafette. Out of more than 1000 participating teams they finished on an excellent 279th place. Congratulations to the entire team, it was an amazing run!
April 5th, 2023
Congratulations Valdrin!
Valdrin successfully defended his PhD thesis today.
March 21st, 2023
Congratulations Linus!
Linus was awarded the Kekulé Fellowship of the Stiftung Stipendien-Fonds des Verbandes der Chemischen Industrie for his PhD proposal on “Targeting collagen cross-linking with reactive peptide-drug conjugates for the precision treatment of fibrotic diseases”. Congratulations Linus, we are proud of you!
March 1st, 2023
Congratulations Alena!
Alena’s first paper of her PhD is out! She developed an efficient peptide-catalyzed reaction to access synthetically versatile triflones with two non-adjacent stereocenters.
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February 13th, 2023
Congratulations Alena!
Alena met Martin Brudermüller, the CEO of BASF, to discuss the challenges that the European chemical industry is currently facing. Curious about what else they talked about in the interview? Watch the external pagevideo and find out! external pageLinkedIn
January 26th, 2023
Congratulations Bartosz, Dario, Rüdiger, Dominik and Martin!
We are very happy, our first paper is out in 2023. A very cool work about the controlled, templated oligomerization of a small-molecule substrate using only a catalytic amount of the template. The number of catalytic moieties in the template determine the number of monomers that are incorporated into the growing oligomer. external pageRead more
December 8th, 2022
Congratulations Lena!
Lena received the Scholarship Fund of the Swiss Chemical Industry (SSCI) for her research proposal on "Receptors and Sensors for the Selective Recognition of Saccharides in Water". Congratulations Lena, we are proud of you!
December 3rd, 2022
Congratulations Rahel!
Rahel received the S. & N. Blank Prize for her Master Thesis on "Influence of the Frame Shift and N-terminal Capping Groups on the Assembly of Collagen Triple Helices". The S. & N. Blank Prize is awarded for an outstanding Master Thesis in polymer or organic chemistry.
Congratulations Rahel, we are proud of you!
November 21st, 2022
Congratulations Tom!
Tom published his second paper in our group: A interesting story about the stability of collagen triple helices. They combined experimental and theoretical studies to shed light on the origin of the underlying effects. Another amazing collaboration the Riniker group! external pageRead more
November 16th, 2022
Congratulations Rüdiger and Dominik!
Just published in OrgLett: Decarboxylative aldol reaction of chlorinated MAHTs and their application in the synthesis of two natural product analogues. external pageRead more
November 4th, 2022
Congratulations Rebi and Maurice!
The paper about detection and isolation of isonitrile containing natural products in collaboration with Uni Zürich and UC San Diego is out now. external pageRead more
November 2nd, 2022
Congratulations Martin!
Martin successfully defended his PhD thesis today.
October 20th, 2022
Congratulations Alena!
Alena was invited as a panelist at the Solvay conference on chemistry with the theme 'Chemistry and the future of society’. We are proud to have Alena as a representative of the young generation of chemists at this prestigious event.
Congratulations!
September 30th , 2022
Congratulations Tom!
Tom just published his first paper in our group: The terminal residues of collagen model peptides have a surprisingly large effect on the stability of collagen triple helices. Amazing collaboration with Emilia P. Barros (Riniker group) and Marc-Oliver Ebert! external pageRead more
September 1st, 2022
Congratulations Laura!
Laura received the Kekulé Fellowship funded by the “Stiftung Stipendien-Fonds des Verbandes der Chemischen Industrie” for her PhD proposal on “Interrogating the selectivity of LOX and LOX-induced collagen cross-linking’’. Congratulations Laura, we are proud of you! external pageRead more
July 26th , 2022
Congratulations Jasper!
Just accepted: Our work on N-heterocyclic substituted aldehydes in organocatalytic C-C bond formations is now published in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. external pageRead more
June 2022
Congratulations to the Collagen Team!
The Wennemers Group received one of the prestigious SNSF Advanced grant, which will fund our exciting research on Monitoring and Targeting of Collagen Cross-linking. external pageRead more ETH-News
June 2022
Congratulations Helma!
Helma wins the Ernesto Scoffone Award 2022.
Helma received the Ernesto Scoffone Award 2022 from the Italian Peptide Society ,,in recognition of her lifetime contributions to peptide science''.
Congratulations Helma, we are proud of you!
June 22nd, 2022
Congratulations Dominik and Jasper!
Dominik and Jasper both successfully defended their PhD thesis today.
June 14th, 2022
Congratulations Tobi und Jonas!
Our next paper for 2022 is online. Tobias and Jonas paper on stereoselective synthesis in complex media was accepted in Chem. Sci. and is now online. The paper was choosen as ChemSci Pick of the week and highlighted in ChemistryWorld. external pageAbstract external pagePick of the Week external pageChemistryWorld
June 8th, 2022
Congratulations Lisa!
The next graduate for this year. Today, Lisa successfully defended her PhD thesis.
May 30th, 2022
Congratulations Helma and Alena!
Helma and Alena were invited to attend the ‚Honour Science & Chemistry‘ event on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic). The iconic picture from the Solvay International Conference in 1927 was recreated, and we are proud to have two representatives of our group in it! external pageRead more
April 6th, 2022
Congratulations Greta!
Greta successfully defended her PhD thesis today.
March 2021
Congratulations Bartosz, Leah and Martin!
Bartosz published his second independend article about the chiral recognition of amino-acid esters in organic solvent using a macrocyclic receptor derived from fructose. external pageRead more
March 2nd, 2022
Congratulations Andy!
Andy successfully defended his PhD thesis today.
January 28th, 2022
Congratulations Greta!
First publication of 2022, yayyy! Greta's work on conjugate addition reaction for synthesis of succinimides was accepted for publication in Chemistry - A European Journal. external pageRead more
September 8th, 2021
Congratulations Leo!
His paper on cooperative Peptide and Gold catalysis was accepted. external pageRead more
20th August 2021
Congratulations Elisabeth!
Elisabeth won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2021 in Basel.
July 28th, 2021
Congratulations Martina!
Martina successfully defended her PhD thesis.
July 19th, 2021
Congratulations to Matt!
His ingenious synergistic tool for visualizing and targeting fibrotic processes just appeared in Nature Chemical Biology, with a highlight on the journal cover! external pageRead more Cover gallery
June 9th, 2021
Congratulations Simon!
Simon successfully defended his PhD thesis.
May 17th, 2021
Congratulations Alena!
Alena received the scholarship funded by the Swiss Chemical Industry (SSCI) for her PhD proposal on ,,Stereoselective Organocatalytic α-Alkylation of Aldehydes’’.
Congratulations Alena, we are proud of you! Read more
April 8th, 2021
Congratulations Jasmine & Mike!
Thanks to Jasmine’s persistence and our terrific collaborators Carmen Esposito and Seraina Riniker, we could show how fatty acids serve as “hydrophobic glue” to stabilize collagen triple helices. Exciting implications for understanding nature and the development of collagen-based materials! Our full paper appeared today in JACS. external pageRead more
March 6th, 2021
Congratulations Bartosz and Martin!
Bartosz published his first independend article in Chemical Communications about the chiral recognition of amino-acid esters by a glucose-derived macrocyclic receptor. external pageRead more
March 4th, 2021
Congratulations Andi!
The next publication for 2021 is online! Andys work in collaboration with the Meijer group on oligodimethylsiloxane-oligoproline-block-co-oligomers and their nanostructures appeared today in JACS. external pageRead more
March, 2021
Congratulations Tobi and Alena!
Tobi's and Alena's publication in Nature Catalysis on the anti-addition of aldehydes to nitroolefins was highlighted in the ,,Trendbericht Organische Chemie'' in ,,Nachrichten aus der Chemie'. external pageRead more
February 22nd, 2021
Congratulations Dominik!
The second publication for us in 2021! Dominiks work on the decarboxylative organocatalyzed addition of F-MAHT to Oxindoles just appeared in Organic Letters. external pageRead more
January 8th, 2021
Congratulations Tobi!
Our first publication in 2021, yeah! Tobi’s Oligoproline-Metalorganic Framework just appeared in JACS, a really “cool" structure. Thanks to our magnificent collaborators Nils (crystallography) and Eno and Renana (theory)! external pageRead more
December 9th, 2020
Congratulations Linus!
Linus received the Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme (ESOP) for his Masters degree program at ETH Zurich with a project proposal on Peptide-Coated Platinum Nanoparticles! Read more
December 5th, 2020
Congratulations Alena!
Alena received the Willi Studer Prize for the best Master degree in chemistry at ETH Zürich. Read More
November 1st, 2020
Congratulations Alena and Greta!
Alena and Greta received the runner-up Poster Award at the Swiss Industrial Chemical Society (SICS) virtual symposium 2020!
August 2020
Congratulations Helma!!!
Helma wins the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Helma received the prestigious American Chemical Society’s 2021 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award for her outstanding work and encouragement in organic chemistry. Congratulations Helma, we are proud of you!
July 22nd, 2020
Congratulations Matt!
Matt and Helma win the Spark Award 2020
Matt’s invention to monitor LOX activity for the detection of fibrotic tissue wins the Spark Award. What a fantastic recognition for an ingenious idea, congratulations Matt! Read more
July 22nd, 2020
Congratulations Tobi!
Tobi is among the finalists of the Reaxys Prize.
Our alumni Tobias Schnitzer scored again and is among the finalists of the Reaxys Prize. He is now a lifetime member of the Reaxys Prize Club. Sadly, the prize winners symposium will not take place in a cool place but only online this fall. Read more
June 22nd, 2020
Congratulations Mao!
Mao’s beautiful study on the transport of InsP6 into the cell nucleus by cationic oligoprolines just appeared in Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations Mao!
June 22nd, 2020
Congratulations Tobi!
Tobi receives ETH Medal and wins the Max Bergmann Nachwuchspreis!
Our alumn Dr. Tobias Schnitzer received an ETH Medal and the Max Bergmann Nachwuchspreis for his thesis on organocatalytic reactions with peptidic catalysts. CONGRATULATIONS Tobi, we are very proud of you!!!
June 10th, 2020
Congratulations Rebecca!
Rebecca successfully defended her PhD thesis.
May 6th, 2020
Congratulations Nina!
Nina successfully defended her PhD thesis.
April 24th, 2020
Congratulations Tobi!
Did you ever wonder, why secondary amine catalysis under neat conditions requires high catalyst loadings? Find out in Tobi's paper „Deactivation of Secondary Amine Catalysts via Aldol Reaction – Amine Catalysis under Solvent-free Conditions“ which was accepted as a Feature Article for publication in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.
April 5th, 2020
Congratulations Tobi!
Tobi's paper on the effect of the β-turn hydrogen bond on trans/cis conformer ratio and the catalytic performance of the peptide H-DPro-Pro-Glu-NH2 was accepted for publication in Tetrahedron.
March 1st, 2020
Welcome Maurice!
Maurice joins us as a PhD student after finishing his undergraduate studies at the ETH Zürich and his Master thesis in the group of Prof. Jörn Piel.
Welcome Alena!
Alena joins us as a PhD student after finishing her undergraduate studies at the ETH Zürich and her Master thesis in the group of Dr. Dmitry Katayev and Prof. Dr. Antonio Togni.
January 28th, 2020
Congratulations Nina and Valdrin!
Check out how Nina und Valdrin designed collagen heterotrimers from three different strands that are held together by only three salt bridges. We are very excited about the prospects of this work that just appeared in JACS.
January 5th, 2020
Congratulations Tobi and Jasper!
Our first paper of the new decade was accepted by Chemical Science! Enjoy Tobi‘s and Jasper‘s detailed mechanistic work that elucidated the effect of the enamine pyramidalization direction on the reactivity of secondary amine organocatalysts.
November 20th, 2019
Congratulations Tobi!
Tobi`s paper on Organocatalyzed Conjugate Addition Reactions of Aldehydes to Nitroolefins with Anti-Selectivity was accepted for publication in Nature Catalysis.
November 11th, 2019
Congratulations Rebbi and Mattia!
Rebbi and Mattia just published a new bioorthogonal ligation between isonitriles and chlorooximes in JACS. Well done, a beautiful study from reaction mechanism to cell-surface glycan labeling!
October 29th, 2019
Congratulations Jasmine & Tobi!
Jasmine and Tobi`s paper on the Influence of Ring-Size on the Collagen Triple Helix was accepted for publication in Organic Letters.
July 18th, 2019
Congratulations Greta!
Greta won the poster prize at the European Symposium on Organic Synthesis (ESOC) 2019.
June 19th, 2019
Congratulations Nina!
Nina won the Poster Award at the Chemical Protein Synthesis Meeting in Berlin.
June 12th, 2019
Congratulations Jasmine!
Jasmine successfully defended her PhD thesis.
June 4th, 2019
Congratulations Tobias!
Tobias successfully defended his PhD thesis.
June 1st, 2019
Welcome Giuseppe!
Giuseppe joins us as a PhD student after finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Padova and his Master thesis in the group of Prof. M. G. Ferlin.
November 1st, 2018
Welcome Leo!
Leo joins us as a postdoc, after finishing his doctoral studies with Prof. Dr. Manuel Alcarazo at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
November 2nd, 2018
The wennemers group came in 2nd for our smurf-tastic Halloween costume contest at the LOC halloween party 2018.
October 3rd, 2018
Congratulations Tobi!
Tobi won a Prize for his performance at the Syngenta Workshop for talented PhD Students.
October 3rd, 2018
Congratulations Nellie!
Nellie successfully defended her PhD thesis.
September 9th, 2018
Congratulations Michal!
Michal was nominated by the Swiss Chemical Society to represent Switzerland in the 7th EFMC-YMCS.
September 7th, 2018
Congratulations Rebecca!
Rebecca won the poster prize at the Swiss Chemical Society fall meeting 2018.
September 1st, 2018
Welcome Valdrin!
Valdrin joins us as a PhD student after finishing his undergraduate studies at the Universities of Strasbourg and Basel and his Master's thesis with our group.
August 31st, 2018
Congratulations Jasmine!
Jasmine won the poster award at the European Peptide Symposium 2018.
August 28th, 2018
Congratulations Jasper!
Jasper won the poster prize at the "advanced organocatalysis" summer school.
August 17th, 2018
Congratulations Michal!
Michal was awarded the prestigious Ambizione grant to begin her own independent research project at the University of Zürich.
July 4th, 2018
Congratulations Andi and Elena!
Andi and Elena both successfully defended their PhD theses.
July 1st, 2018
Welcome Martin!
Martin joins us as a PhD student after finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Heidelberg, and his Master's thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. H.-J. Himmel
June 21, 2018
Congratulations Tobi!
Tobi's paper on the effect of γ-substituted proline derivatives on the performance of the peptidic catalyst H-DPro-Pro-Glu-NH2 was accepted for publication in Synthesis.
June 12, 2018
Congratulations Nellie, Stefano, and Ula!
Their paper on positional isomers of peptide-chromophore conjugates that self-assemble into different morphologies was accepted for publication in Chemistry - A European Journal.
March 9, 2018
Congratulations Carlotta!
Carlotta's paper on functionalized proline-rich peptides to bind the bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP was accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie.
January 1st, 2018
Welcome Jasper!
Jasper joins us as a PhD student after finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Heidelberg, and his Master's thesis in the group of Andres Jäschke.
November 1, 2017
Welcome Dominik!
Dominik joins us as a PhD student after finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Heidelberg and his Master's thesis in the group of Stephen Hashmi.
September 27th, 2017
Congratulations Tobi!
Tobi's paper on the influence of the trans/cis conformer ratio on the stereoselectivity of peptidic catalysts was accepted to the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
September 18th, 2017
Congratulations Jasmine!
Jasmine's paper on the effect of terminal functional groups on the stability of collagen triple helices was accepted to Chemical Communications.
September 6th, 2017
Congratulations Nina!
Nina's publication on cross-linked collagen model peptides via oxime ligation was just published in JACS on the News section.
September 1st, 2017
Welcome Greta!
Greta joins us as a PhD student after finishing her undergraduate studies at Queen Mary University of London and her Master's thesis in the group of Nathalie Lebrasseur.
August 31st, 2017
Congratulations Elena!
Elena won a poster prize at the EFMC-ASMC 2017 in Vienna.
August 25th, 2017
Congratulations Steffi and Matt!
Steffi and Matt's review on the use of oligoprolines as molecular rulers in biological and material sciences was accepted to Accounts of Chemical Research.
August 24th, 2017
Congratulations Stefano and Michal!
Stefano and Michal's current opinion on peptide mediated nanoparticle formation was accepted to Current Opinions in Chemical Biology.
July 22nd, 2017
Congratulations Wennemers Group!
The FC Waterbears won the pharmacup volleyball competition this year!
July 19th, 2017
Congratulations Steffi!
Steffi successfully defended her PhD thesis.
July 11th, 2017
Congratulations Ula!
Ula was awarded a poster prize at the Ulm-Erlangen Mini-Symposium on Functional Organic Materials (Ulm 2017).
July 6th, 2017
Congratulations Nellie!
Nellie was awarded the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry poster prize at the ISMSC (Cambridge 2017).
July 1st, 2017
Welcome Elisabeth!
Elisabeth joins us as a PhD student after finishing her undergraduate studies at Philipps-University Marburg and her Master's thesis in the group of Ed Tate at Imperial College London.
June 14th, 2017
Congratulations Stefano!
Stefano successfully defended his PhD thesis.
June 6th, 2017
Congratulations Ula, Stefano, Rüdiger, and Nellie!
Their paper on the preparation of a triaxial supramolecular weave was accepted to Nature Chemistry.
May 20th, 2017
Congratulations Tobi!
Tobi's paper on a comparison of tri- and tetrapeptidic catalysts was accepted to Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.
May 1st, 2017
Welcome Andreas!
Andreas joins us as a PhD student after finishing his undergraduate studies at the Technical University of Munich and his Master's thesis with our group.
April 25th, 2017
Congratulations Carlotta!
Carlotta successfully defended her PhD thesis.
April 12th, 2017
Congratulations Oliver!
Oliver successfully defended his PhD thesis.
April 11th, 2017
Congratulations Jasmine and Christiane!
Their paper on pH-responsive aminoproline-containing collagen triple helices was accepted for publication in Chemistry - A European Journal.
March 1st, 2017
Congratulations Nina!
Nina was selected to attend this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to chemistry, which takes place from June 25-30 in Lindau, Germany. Her participation at this renowned conference is funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR).
March 1st, 2017
Congratulations Mattia!
Mattia was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowship for career development. His project (BioMPCat) lies at the interface between chemical biology and catalysis.
March 2017
Congratulations Helma!
Prof. Wennemers was awarded the external pageInhoffen medal from the Helmoltz Centre for Infection Research.
February 14th, 2017
Congratulations Tobi!
Tobi's paper on a stereoselective tripeptide catalyst for conjugate addition reactions of acetophenones to dicyanoolefins was accepted for publication in Synlett.
February 1st, 2017
Welcome Martina!
Martina joins us as a PhD student after finishing her undergraduate studies at Siena University and her Master thesis with Daniel Petersen at the University of Copenhagen.
February 2017
Congratulations Helma!
Prof. Wennemers was awarded the 2017 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship at the University of Pennsylvania.
January 1st, 2017
Welcome Simon!
Simon joins us as a PhD student after finishing his Master's degree in our group.
January 2017
Congratulations Helma!
Prof. Wennemers was awarded the Calvin Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
January 2017
Congratulations Helma!
Prof. Wennemers was awarded the 2017 Chemical Record Lectureship.
December 1st, 2016
Welcome Wolfgang!
Wolfgang joins us as a postdoc, after finishing his doctoral studies with Prof. Dr. Stephan Sieber at TU München.
November 10th, 2016
Congratulations Elena!
Elena's paper on asymmetric synthesis of α-fluoro-γ-nitro thioesters was accepted for publication on Organic Letters.
November 3rd, 2016
Welcome Mao!
Mao joins our group as a postdoc after completing his doctoral studies with Prof. Dr. Carsten Schmuck at the University of Duisburg Essen
October 18th, 2016
Congratulations Philipp and Yvonne!
Philipp and Yvonne's paper on the effect of charge preorganization on the cell-penetrating properties of cationic peptides was accepted by Angewandte Chemie.
October 1st, 2016
Congratulations Nina!
Nina was awarded an AFR PhD Fellowship from the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR) for her research on the chemical synthesis of collagen.
September 29th, 2016
Congratulations Elena!
Elena was awarded the best oral presentation at IASOC conference 2016.
September 27th, 2016
Congratulations Elena!
Elena was awarded a flash oral presentation at the IASOC 2016 on her work on α-Fluorinated monothiomalonates.
September 1st, 2016
Welcome Cedric!
Cedric joins us as a PhD student after finishing his undergraduate studies of biology and Master thesis with Jörn Piel at ETH Zurich.
August 15th, 2016
Congratulations Elena, Oliver and Jakub!
Elena, Oliver and Jakub's paper on stereoselective organocatalyzed synthesis of α-Fluorinated β-Amino thioesters was accepted by Angewandte Chemie.
July 31st, 2016
Congratulations Wennemers volleyball team!
On winning the Pharmacup 2016 competition!
July 5th, 2016
Congratulations Jess and Claudio!
Jess and Claudio's paper on structural features of DPro-Pro-Xaa type catalysts was accepted by Peptide Science.
June 23rd, 2016
Congratulations Matt!
Matt received an ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship.
May 17th, 2016
Congratulations to the Wennemers group!
The new Wennemers group website is up and running.
May 9th, 2016
Congratulations Helma!
Prof. Wennemers was awarded the external pagePedler Award 2016 from the Royal Society of Chemistry "for the profound and elegant discovery of small molecules that function like natural macromolecules."
April 6th, 2016
Congratulations Claudio!
Claudio's paper on peptide-catalyzed 1,4-addition reactions of aldehydes to unprotected maleimides was accepted by Angewandte Chemie.
March 30th, 2016
Congratulations Stefano!
Stefano's paper on thiol-free tripeptide to control the formation and stabilize noble metal nanoparticles was accepted by Angewandte Chemie and will be highlighted on the front cover.
February 1st, 2016
Welcome Mattia!
Mattia joins our group as a Postdoc after completing his doctoral studies with Prof. Dr. Benjamin List at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung.
Welcome Michal!
Michal joins our group as a Postdoc after completing her Ph.D. studies with Prof. Edit Y. Tshuva at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
January 24th, 2016
Congratulations Jakub!
Jakub's paper on the first enantioselective catalytic aldol reaction with fluoroacetate equivalents was accepted by Nature Chemistry.
January 20th, 2016
Congratulations Ula!
Ula's paper on hierarchical supramolecular assemblies by oligoproline-chromophore conjugates was accepted by Chemistry – A European Journal.
January 1st, 2016
Welcome Nina!
Nina joins our group as a PhD student after completing her undergraduate studies in Interdisciplinary Sciences at ETH.
Welcome Matt!
Matt joins our group as a Postdoc after completing his Ph.D. studies with Prof. Dr. Ronald T. Raines at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
December 1st, 2015
Welcome Rüdiger!
Rüdiger joins our group as a Postdoc after completing his doctoral studies with Prof. Dr. Magnus Rueping at RWTH Aachen.