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Large metal-organic cages for encapsulating biomolecules

Project

Project Details

Recent work in the Nitschke group has produced cages potentially capable of encapsulating proteins or nucleic acids. This project will develop the encapsulation of these biomolecules, and study their properties and potential therapeutic applications.