📍Everyone needs to read this 40-year saga of Dr Katalin Karikó, inventor of the mRNA therapy behind Pfizer/BioNTech & Moderna #COVID19 vaccines. Rejected many times, nevertheless she persisted. She will win the Nobel Prize. Oh she’s an *immigrant* too! telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

📢We are hiring! Join our international team in Brussels to work on the synthesis and development of ion transmembrane transporters for biomedical applications. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/48919 (PhD student, €2300/month net) euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/48395 (postdoc, €2850/month net fellowship)

📣Check my first paper "Functionalised polymeric materials for the removal of arsenate from contaminated water" at Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. 🧪Work I did during my master's at Imperial College London at @vilar_group pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Transmembrane Transport of Fluoride Studied by Time-Resolved Emission Spectroscopy. Congratulations to Alessio Cataldo for his 1st first-author preprint, in collaboration with Stephen Butler Francois Gabbai and Vladimir Sindelar. doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Our work about 🚨oriented #MOFs films & Patterns🚨 is finally out in Advanced Materials 📈 (@AdvSciNews). Certainly, the main ingredient of this work was cooperation.

Happy to see this #MOF cover! 🎉🎉🎉 Many thanks to all co-authors Miriam , Mercedes Linares Moreau, cdoonan, Ameloot Group, Guillermo Acuna Lab, Jack Evans ... and many more!

Dr. Miriam de Jesús Velásquez-Hernández (Miriam) from FalcaroGroup at Graz University of Technology, Austria (TU Graz) will talk about "Resist-free micropatterning of oriented MOF films with anisotropic optical properties"

For everything you had always wanted to know about the LUCIGENIN ASSAY: read our preprint on ChemRxiv doi.org/10.26434/chemr… containing detailed procedures, explanations, and new variations that will help you to study transmembrane transporters for anions using liposomes.

Thrilled to share my 1st publication in JACS! 🎉 A major milestone and I'm grateful to Hennie Valkenier as my post-doc mentor, Stephen Butler & Alessio Cataldo for their vital contributions to the phosphate assays, and all of the other co-authors! #JACS pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

I'm thrilled to be involved in this year's #LatinXChem24 as a judge for the #LatinXChemSupra category. Calling all #supramolecular and #MOF scientists to submit your abstracts! Let's highlight the outstanding research in our community. 🌟 THX Rodríguez-Molina group for the invitation.

We're excited to share our perspective in Chemical Science on the transport of anions across membranes by synthetic anion receptors based on sigma-hole interactions. We're looking forward to seeing further studies on cells and applications in biology! pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

Glad to share Aaron Torres Huerta 's in-depth study on how different carboxylate anions can cross lipid membranes with or without help of anion carriers: doi.org/10.3390/molecu…. We obtained some surprising and some more intuitive results (see thread) MDPI

Now out in "Current Opinion in Chemical Biology" is our short review on Synthetic Transporters for Oxoanions, giving an overview of common trends and interesting deviations/achievements. Jointly written with postdocs Karolis Norvaiša and Aaron Torres Huerta. doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa…

🎉 New issue, Molecules, Volume 29, Issue 21 (November-1 2024), is out now! 🔗 Issue link: brnw.ch/21wOMpa 🖼️ Cover paper: The Role of the Organic Moiety in the Diffusion and Transport of Carboxylates into Liposomes by Torres-Huerta and Valkenier (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Congratulations to Aaron Torres Huerta for getting his work on the transport of carboxylates into liposomes highlighted on the cover of Molecules MDPI ! Read the full story here: doi.org/10.3390/molecu…

Structural Requirements of Synthetic Anionophores for Inorganic Phosphate and Phosphate Esters by Hennie Valkenier and co-workers (Faculté des Sciences) #OpenAccess ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…

🚀 Exciting news! Our latest paper on transmembrane-assisted transport of phosphate & phosphate esters is featured on the front cover of #ChemistryEurope! 🏆check it out! 🔬📖 doi.org/10.1002/ceur... #Liposomes #Anion transport #ScienceCover

Thrilled to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2025! 🎉European Research Council (ERC) Grateful to all who made this possible: Aaron Torres Huerta , Ameloot Group, Hennie Valkenier , Excited to establish the Velasquez & Torres Group@KU Leuven. 🚀 #ERCStG #ERC

🚨Would you like to learn how small volumes can have big implications? 🚨Check out our latest paper 📃on compartmentalised liposome-based nanoreactors that engineered the self-assembly of hybrid materials. Hennie Valkenier Miriam. Now in Angewandte Chemie doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…