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: Jannik Knoche, Linda Schütz
- Postdoc: Aleksandr Kazimir
- PhD students: Bekas Alo, Tom Götze, Mirko Delpero, Ali Kanso, Lilli Kehr, Maximilian Hoffmann, Shivangi Saha, Dominik Peterseim
- Diplom student: Pia-Lara Haupt, Kristina Schmitz
- HIWI: Jens Mölich
- ... and you? We are always open for enthusiastic Bachelor, Master and PhD students!
Jun. Prof Dr. Christina Lamers
Awards, prices and fellowships
- 2023 Svar Camplement Excellence Award
- 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
- since 2024 NextGenMedChem board of GDCh