Welcome!
The Sletten Group takes a multidisciplinary approach towards the creation of enhanced nanotherapeutics, shortwave infrared diagnostics, and new chemical tools to study living systems. Research within the group involves a mix of organic synthesis, fluorous chemistry, chemical biology, self-assembly, polymer synthesis, photophysics, nanomedicine, and pharmacology.
Recent News
6/15/26 – Eric becomes Sletten group PhD #15! Congrats on all your hard work, Dr. Lin! We miss you already.
6/13/26 – Cheers to Cheyenne (BS), Emily, Eric, Ethan, Helen, Katie, Paige, and Prairie (PhDs) who had a beautiful commencement ceremony. You’re all superstars!
6/12/26 – Katie and Paige give fabulous exit talks on poly(2-oxazoline) chemistries in the organic symposium. Congrats!
6/10/26 – Today we celebrate and bid farewell to Cheyenne, graduating with her BS in Biochemistry! Cheers to you, and best of luck in your next chapter.
5/26/26 – Emily closes out the chemical biology seminars with a SWIRtastic exit talk. Outstanding work!
5/19/26 – Chey and Oliwia each give phenomenal research talks in UCLA’s undergraduate research week. Cheers to a job well done.
5/19/26 – Eric uncovers the intricacies of SWIR imaging with a very colorful exit talk. Amazing work!
5/12/26 – Ethan keeps the exit talk momentum going and delivers an enthusiastic seminar on fluorous chemistry. Great job Ethan!
5/6/26 – Willow’s News and Views article on click chemistry is now available at Nature!
5/5/26 – Helen gives a fantastic exit talk on strategies to improve fluorofluorophores for biological imaging! Excellent work.
4/28/26 – The Sletten group’s chemical biology exit talk series starts off with a bang! Congrats on all your hard work Prairie!
4/16/26 – Emily’s review on SWIR dyes is now lighting up Acc. Chem. Res.! Great work.
3/2/26 – Check out Helen’s fluorofluorophore imaging across the near- and shortwave infrared regions, now out in Chem. Biomed. Imaging! Congrats team.
2/17/26 – Our work on trinuclear polymethine dyes is now available at Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.!
1/5/26 – We’re ringing in the new year with new lab members! Welcome to the group, Marie and Nate.