Lecture: 'Multicomponent supramolecular polymers: from viromimetic assemblies to subunit antitumour vaccines'

Aqueous self-assembly of molecular building blocks into ordered architectures, polymers and materials opens exciting avenues for fundamental developments in nanoscience and applications in biomedical technologies. He will highlight his group’s recent efforts in controlling peptide and glycopeptide supramolecular polymerisations in solution and off surfaces mention recent efforts on self-assembled Au(I)-metallopeptides, and will largely focus on the preparation and evaluation of fully synthetic antitumour vaccines using the modular approach of multifunctional supramolecular copolymers.

About

Prof. Pol Besenius, born in Wiltz (Luxembourg) in 1981, completed in 2008 his PhD studies at the University of Strathclyde and WestCHEM Research School in Glasgow, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. In 2008, Dr. Besenius took up a Postdoctoral Research Assistant position at the Eindhoven University of Technology, being awarded a Marie-Curie Fellowship in the Laboratory for Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry and the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems. From 2011 to 2014, he was as Group Leader in the Organic Chemistry Institute at the University of Munster and the Center for Nanotechnology, and supported by a Liebig Fellowship from the ‘Fonds der Chemischen Industrie’ (FCI). In December 2015, he completed the Habilitation and received the venia legendi in Organic Chemistry. Since that year, he is Professor for Macromolecular Chemistry in the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Mainz.