News
13/06/2024: Kleopatra Kalouta successfully defended her thesis!
06/06/2024: Xuezhi Zhuo successfully defended his thesis!
05/06/2024: Paper in ACS Sust. Chem Eng.!
09/11/2023: Vito´s inaugural lecture!
01/06/2023: Vito promoted to Professor!
02/02/2023: Vito is awarded the YIP+ grant!
17/01/2023: Paper in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.!
28/10/2022: Paper in Communications Biology!
26/09/2022: Camilla Thorlaksen successfully defended her thesis!
02/09/2022: Two papers from Camilla´s project accepted in EJPB! See here and here.
09/08/2022: Vito gives a talk at the Colorado Protein Stability Conference 2022!
19/05/2022: Hussein Chaaban successfully defended his thesis!
08/04/2022: Paper in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.!
12/02/2022: Paper in J Controlled Release!
01/11/2021: Grants from Innovation Fonden and Novo Nordisk A/S!
04/10/2021: Xin Zhou successfully defended her thesis!
We are a highly interdisciplinary research team performing our activities at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen.
We use tools derived from physics and chemistry to address the complexity of nano- and micro-scale systems of biological relevance. We love working with proteins and peptides with the aim of understanding the physics laws ruling their stability, self-assembly mechanisms, and interactions with both biological interfaces and other biomolecules. We aim at translating this fundamental knowledge into novel high-impact applications, with a main focus on creating advanced materials for nano-medicine and drug delivery, improving safety of protein drug formulations and understanding the etiology of protein-related neurodegenerative diseases.
To achieve our goals, we use theoretical frameworks in combination with experiments mainly based on UV-Vis spectroscopy, X-ray and neutron scattering and optical and electron microscopies. We work in close connection with both international collaborators in academia, large-scale facilities and national and international industrial entities.
Keywords: Protein materials; Protein Stability and Self-Assembly; Protein-Membrane Interactions; Drug Delivery Systems; Models for Self-Assembly; UV-Vis spectroscopy; Trasmission Electron Microscopy; X-ray and Neutron Scattering.
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