Lamers Lab
Development of Macrocyclic Peptide Therapeutics
The Lamers Lab is located at the Institute for Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University
Research focus
- Macrocyclic Peptides as therapeutic compounds
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- Structure-activity relationship studies
- optimization of binding affinities and pharmacokinetic parameter
- Solid phase peptide synthesis and manual chemical peptide modification
- in vitro characterization of synthesized peptides with SPR, ELISA, BLI, ITC and more
- Chemical modified Phage Display generating Macrocyclic Peptides to identify tool compounds and peptide leads
- Targeting the Complement System and intrinsic coagulation cascade
Our team
- Principal investigator: Christina Lamers
- Lab manager: Ratna Wolfram
- Technical assistance: Eike Runne
- PhD student: Bekas Alo
- Master student: Tom Götze
- ... and you? We are always open for enthusiastic Bachelor, Master and PhD students!
Stay tuned... new lab members on the horizon! Starting in October 2023 in our newly funded Projekts KIWI and the TRR Hypmol
Jun. Prof Dr. Christina Lamers
Awards, prices and fellowships
- 2021 NRW Rückkehrstipendium (declined)
- 2020 Junior Researcher Fond, University Basel
- 2018 antelope Professorship career development grant
- 2015 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
Active memberships
- since 2005 German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)
- since 2017 Swiss Chemical Society (SCS)
- since 2019 American Peptide Society
- since 2021 International Complement Society