Max Planck

• Dr. Susana Pamela Mejía de los Ríos has been awarded the postdoc fellowship, Orchids: Women in Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Sciences and Technologies 2025, in a joint project with the Corporation for Biological Research. 

• M.Sc. Viviana Vásquez has been awarded the Ph.D. fellowship from the Biotechnology graduate student program at the University of Antioquia, 2025. 

• Dr. Jahir Orozco has been awarded the Universidad de Antioquia Research Award for Best Research of 2024 in the Natural and Exact Sciences, Engineering, and Economy category.

• Dr. Jahir Orozco has had the honor of being a corresponding member of Colombia's Academy of Natural, Physical, and Exact Sciences since 2023. 

• Dr. Andrés Felipe Cruz's Ph.D. thesis was awarded Colombia's best doctoral thesis in 2024 by Colombia's Academy of Natural, Physical, and Exact Sciences. Dr. Danilo Echeverri and Susana Pamela Mejía, postdoctoral researchers in our group, and former group members Dr. Dayana Soto and Dr. Pedro Mena received meritorious distinction for their PhD. Thesis. 

• Three new Ph.D graduated in the group: Andrés Felipe Cruz Pacheco and Danilo Echeverri Hincapié graduated with distinction Cum laude, and Susana Pamela de los Rios with Magna Cum Laude. Congratulations!

• Dr. Jahir Orozco has edited a special issue in Converging Nanochemistry: From Diseases Prevention to Diagnosis and Treatment in the Molecules journal. Please have a look at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules/special_issues/nano_bioengineering

• A new cover from our group in collaboration with Prof. Katharina Landfester, and Prof. Volker Mailänder from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. 

  

• Our work is on the front cover of the Applied Materials and Interfaces journal. Photosensitive polymeric Janus micromotor for enzymatic activity protection and enhanced substrate degradation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14 (2022) 5897−5907.

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• Dr Jahir Orozco has been appointed as Editorial Board Member in the Molecules journal.

• Nanobioingeniería, soluciones innovadoras en salud.

• Biosensor facilitaría el diagnóstico del zika.

• IX Simposio de Química Aplicada (IX Siquia) y I Congreso Internacional de Nanoquímica, Nanofísica y Nanomedicina (ICINNN), 21-23 de agosto 2019, Armenia, Colombia

  • Best research work as an oral presentation in the Nanobiomaterials section. Nestor S Cajigas, Daniel Alzate, Jahir Orozco*. Desarrollo de Nano-Bioconjugados basados en  Nanopartículas de Oro y Hebras de ADN para Amplificación de la Señal en Biosensado.
  • Best research work as an oral presentation in the Nanomedicine section. Daniel S. Alzate, Nestor S. Cajigas, Sara M. Robledo, Carlos E. Muskus, Jahir. Orozco*, Genosensores para el Diagnóstico de Infecciones Virales Transmitidas por Mosquitos.