The Smart NanoParticles team has just published an article in Toxics, entitled "Involvement of Surface Receptors in the Uptake and Cellular Responses Induced by Cationic Polyamine-Based Carbon Dots in Macrophages". This study explores the role of surface receptors in the internalization and cellular…
The SNP team has published an article entitled "Engineered carbon dots for mucosal gene delivery" in Eur. J. Pharm. Sci. Link
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The SNP team has published a preprint entitled Affinity-ligand purification of native human low-abundance multi-protein complexes for structure determination" in BioArchiv. Link
Alexandre Specht is looking for a candidate for a thesis in co-supervision with a research team from the University of Lorraine, within the framework of MITI thesis funding from the CNRS. M/F PhD Fellowship: chemobiology/(eco)toxicology of endocrine disrupting phthalates PhD offer
Élise Cherasse, a first-year PhD student working on the ANR CadoRNA project (SNP team), has just received the award for Best Poster Presentation at the Illkirch Campus Days (JCI), held on May 26–27th, 2025. Congratulations to her!
We are happy to welcome Dr Julia Fath as a postdoctoral researcher in the SNP group. She will work on the “CadoRNA” ANR project to develop Carbon Dot-based nanoparticles for siRNA delivery and enhanced PDT. News SNP
We are happy to welcome Élise Cherasse, she started her thesis in October 2024 in the SNP group. Her research will involve the development of Carbon Dots for siRNA delivery and enhanced PDT delivery. News SNP
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Congratulations to Fanny Burger, master student in pharmacology and toxicology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Strasbourg, for obtaining a disability doctoral fellowship from the University of Strasbourg. Fanny will start her PhD next October in the SNP team on the delivery of siRNA controlled by…
Congratulations to Léa Garcenot, Master's student in Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry of Strasbourg, for obtaining a doctoral contract from the Strasbourg Doctoral School of Chemical Sciences. Léa will start her PhD next October in the SNP team on the development of…
The “CadoRNA” ANR project funded in 2023 (project ANR-23-CE18-0014) started start in March 2024. This research project coordinated by Alexandre Specht will be carried out in collaboration with the groups of Françoise Pons, Pascal Didier (LBP, UMR 7021) and Mei Li (IGBMC, UMR 7104 – UMR-S 1258).…
Following a pre-maturation phase, the “MucoLip” project (Project leaders: Françoise Pons & Luc Lebeau) entered in a maturation phase (funding from SATT Conectus Alsace). This project aims to develop auxiliary lipids to confer intrinsic mucolytic activity to lipidic nanoparticles for the release of…
In this work carried out in collaboration with the team of Dr. Sidney Cambridge at the University of Frankfurt, we demonstrate a first step towards the development of targeted light-mediated gene therapy in the eye.
