The year couldn't end any better: Johannes is the first in our team who successfully defended his PhD on responsive (oxa-)norbornene nanogels at Würzburg University in our new Center of Polymers for Life - congratulations! We wish you all a joyful Christmas and a peaceful and happy New Year 2025.

We have another new PhD in the group: Congratulations to Patric for successfully defending his outstanding thesis “Reductive-Responsive Aliphatic Polycarbonates” - well done! Moreover, the Macromolecular Therapeutics Team welcomes back Fabian Schnick and Jannis Willig for their master theses: best of luck with all your upcoming experiments!

Fantastic news for the Macromolecular Therapeutics Team: Lutz Nuhn was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. The whole team is gratefully looking forward to expanding their research on polymers for RNA delivery at the Center of Polymers for Life - thank you very much for this honorable recognition.