Biological Chemistry: J.-P. Behr Honored / Organic Chemistry: Prize for K. S. Schanze / Theoretical Chemistry: A. I. Boldyrev Awarded

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 220 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200904046

✦ Synopsis

The research in his group "genetic chemistry" initially focused on DNA as a "supermolecule".

The group now predominantly works on drug delivery and uses galenic methods to deliver nucleic acids and proteins into the cells of animals. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Chem-BioChem, in which he recently reported on the synthesis of cationic diblock oligonucleotides for improved hybridization with their complementary sequences. [1a] In Angewandte Chemie, he described the targeted organization of nanoscopic DNA particles coated with folic acid for gene delivery to cancer cells. [1b]