Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine

Else Kroener-Fresenius-Endowed professorship

Welcome to the website of the Section for Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SEON)!

The Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University and Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Alexiou were successful in a competitive selection process for the W3 endowed professorship for nanomedicine of the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation. Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Alexiou has now held this position since July 1, 2009 at the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic, Head and Neck Surgery of the University Hospital Erlangen. In this function he works clinically-surgically as a senior physician in the ENT clinic as well as the head of SEON.

SEON Highlights

Welcome Guests

Minister of Health Holetschek and Minister of the Interior Herrmann visit SEON

Selected current publications

  • Vogel et al.: Critical Offset Magnetic PArticle Spectro-Scopy for rapid and highly sensitive medical point-of-care diagnostics
    Published in Nature Communications
  • Ryma et al.: A Print-and-Fuse Strategy for Sacrificial Filaments Enables Biomimetically Structured Perfusable Microvascular Networks with Functional Endothelium Inside 3D Hydrogels
    Published in Advanced Materials
  • Kappes et al.: Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Targeted Cell Seeding: Magnetic Patterning and Magnetic 3D Cell Culture
    Published in Advanced Structural Materials