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
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.