Dr. Meike Leiske

Position: postdoctoral researcher

Biography:

Dr. Meike N. Leiske holds a doctor assistant position in the group of Prof. Richard Hoogenboom at Ghent University (Belgium). Her research field focuses on biomimetic polymers and their derived materials aiming for tumor drug delivery. The main goal of this research is the development of smart nanomaterials, which can intrinsically target motifs on cell surfaces to facilitate cellular specificity. Prior to her work in Ghent, Meike obtained her Ph.D. at the Friedrich Schiller University (Jena, Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Ulrich S. Schubert in 2018 for her work on poly(2-oxazoline)s for biomedical applications. From 2018 to 2021, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Melbourne (Australia) in the groups of Prof. Thomas P. Davis and Dr. Kristian Kempe. In 2019, she received a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for her work on zwitterionic site-specific polymers.

Research project:

Development of smart nanomaterials, which can intrinsically target motifs on cell surfaces to facilitate cellular specificity.

Contact:

E-mail: meike.leiske@ugent.be