Research

We are passionate to understand rules of life and use the knowledge to develop new medicines for human diseases like viral infections and cancer

Our team applies a multidisciplinary approach to engineer proteins for therapeutic purposes and shed insight into the function of iron-sulfur proteins at the crossroads of the immune response and cancer. The current research in our group is divided into three themes:

Nanotechnology & Nanorobotics

By mimicking nature and using natural biocompatible proteins, we are creating building blocks to assemble different nanobots as drug delivery system or developing new antiviral therapeutics/preventives.

Biocatalysis for Antiviral Discovery

We are mining into the unlimited repository of natural enzymes and engineer existing enzymes to develop new approaches for biocatalytic prevention of viral infections.

Iron-sulfur Proteins in the Immune System

We are leading the way to understand how ancient bioinorganic cofactors made of iron and sulfur function in the immune system and contribute to the regulation of various biological processes such as hypoxia and gasotransmitter signal transduction.