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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
12/21/24 – Congrats to Emily and Eric!! Their work on chromenylium star polymers is now available at ACS Cent. Sci.
12/19/24 – Congrats to Kaitlin! Her work on olympicene functionalization is now available at J. Org. Chem.
12/12/24 – In Sletten group tradition, we celebrated our lab birthday at none other than Santa Monica Brew Works! Cheers to another great year ahead.
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 poster 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.
9/27/24 – Congrats to Heidi and Joseph! Their work with the Campàs group on non-ionic fluorous surfactants is now available at Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
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.