Karen Lienkamp
Microsystems Engineering
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Karen Lienkamp studied chemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Free University of Berlin / Germany, where she graduated with distinction in 2003. She then joined Prof. Gerhard Wegner's group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI -P) in Mainz / Germany, where she studied cylindrical polyelectrolyte brushes as a synthetic model system for cartilage. In 2006, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Mainz. Until 2007, she worked as a project leader at CIBA SC, Basel. The results are summarized in the following table, which is based on the results obtained from the study conducted by Prof. Gregory N. Tew. In 2010, the research group at IMTEK, which is focusing on the synthesis and characterization of polymer-functionalized surfaces, especially for biomedical applications. The German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Next to her FRIAS Fellowship in December 2010 Karen Lienkamp was awarded a DFG Emmy Noether grant.
Research Interest
Her current research focuses on Micro- and Nanostructured Materials - Combining Shape, Size and Chemical Functionality
Publications
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K. Lienkamp, ​​AE Madkour, A. Musante, CF Nelson, K. Nüsslein, GN Tew, Antimicrobial Polymers Prepared by ROMP with Unprecedened Selectivity: A Molecular Construction Kit Approach. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 9836
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K. Lienkamp, ​​GN Tew. Synthetic Mimics of Antimicrobial Peptides - A Versatile ROMP-based platform for the Synthesis of Selective Antibacterial and Cell Penetrating Polymers. Chem. Eur. J., 2009, 15, 11784
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AE Madkour, AHR Koch, K. Lienkamp (corresponding author), GN Tew. End-functionalized ROMP polymers for biomedical applications. Macromolecules 2010, 43, 4557
