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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

11/18/24 – MACS students Dennis and Ziting join the group. Welcome!

11/4/24 – Today we welcome first year graduate student Hafez for his Fall rotation!

11/3/24 – The group’s PHOTONbooth and household fluorescence demos were a hit at UCLA’s 2024 Explore Your Universe (EYU)!

10/10/24 – Congratulations to Kaitlin for winning a poser award at the UCLA Amgen symposium.

9/30/24 – First year graduate students Cesar, James, Katerina, Max and Rehan begin their fall rotations. Welcome to the Sletten group!

9/30/24 – Today we say goodbye to Dr.’s Garcia, Garcia, and Spearman. Congrats and best of luck! You will all be missed.

9/24/24 – The group takes a break from lab to watch one of the final Dodgers v. Padres games of the season. Go Dodgers!

9/17/24 – Huge congratulations to Ellen and our collaborator, Oliver Bruns, for receiving the prestigious 2024 Helmholtz High Impact Award in Berlin! Check out their work here.

9/7/24 – What better way to celebrate our 2024 PhD graduates than bbq, cake, and homemade ice cream? Congratulations to Dr’s Garcia, Garcia, and Spearman!! You will be missed.

9/4/24 – Congrats to Helen and Irene! Fluorofluorophores with improved brightness and photostability are now available at Chem Eur J.

9/1/24 – Emily receives a 2024 UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) Graduate Student Fellowship. Congratulations!

8/30/24 – Our work led by Quintashia on flavylium merocyanine dyes is now available on ChemRxiv.

8/21/24 – Kaitlin and Ellen both give outstanding talks at ACS Fall 2024! We’re so proud of you.

8/13/24 – Look out UCLA, we officially have Sletten lab PhD candidate #24 on the loose! Congrats Devon, amazing work.

8/5/24 – First year graduate students Aditya and Ben begin their summer rotations. Welcome to the Sletten group!

7/1/24 – Ellen is promoted to the rank of full Professor! Congratulations on this phenomenal achievement!

6/24/24 – Congrats to Joseph and Ashley! Their work on biotin-initiated poly(oxazoline)s is now available at Macromolecules.

6/17/24 – Our work led by Helen on counterion exchange of a fluorofluorophore is now preprinted at ChemRxiv.

6/14/24 – Today we celebrate all of our BS and MS graduates. Congrats to Maggie, Neel, Jon, Nika, and Ashley!