Marcelo Calderón

Biography

Marcelo Calderón received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 2007 from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, under the supervision of Prof. Miriam Strumia. His research topic dealt with the preparation of amphiphilic polymers by dendronization. In 2007 he joined the Research Group of Prof. Rainer Haag at the Freie Universitat Berlin for his Postdoctoral work, where he pursued the development of polymer-drug conjugates for the passive targeted delivery of drugs, genes, and imaging probes. Since May 2013 he is a Junior Profesor for Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry at the Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Research Interest

Research  interests devoted to the development of new delivery systems based on dendritic polymers with focus on: (1) multifunctional polymer-drug conjugates, (2) self-assembling amphiphiles for the controlled delivery of bioactives, (3) new diagnostic technologies as theranostic approaches, and (4) enviroment-responsive nanogels. He is associated to research projects in several German and International networks (European COST Action TD 0802 ‘Dendrimers in Biomedical Applications’;