Anika M Jonker

The biocompatible, injectable and high water-swollen nature of hydrogels makes them a popular candidate to imitate the extracellular matrix (ECM) for tissue engineering both in vitro and in vivo. However,...

Poly(ethylene)glycol (PEG)-based hydrogels are often used as matrix material for cell culturing. An efficient method to prepare soft PEG gels is by cross-linking via copper-free strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition (SPAAC). Here,...

Strain-promoted oxidation-controlled cyclo-octyne-1,2-quinone cycloaddition (SPOCQ) is a fast and activatable cross-linking strategy for hydrogel formation. Gelation is induced by oxidation, which is performed both chemically using sodium periodate and enzymatically...

A main challenge in the area of bioconjugation is to devise reactions that are both activatable and fast. Here, we introduce a temporally controlled reaction between cyclooctynes and 1,2-quinones, induced...

Despite declining numbers of cases and deaths, malaria remains a major public health problem in many parts of the world. Today, case management relies heavily on a single class of...

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) is the most often used synthetic polymer within the field of bone regeneration owing to its biocompatibility and biodegradability. As a consequence, a large number of medical...

We have designed and synthesized novel irreversible serine protease inhibitors containing aliphatic sulfonyl fluorides as an electrophilic trap. These substituted taurine sulfonyl fluorides derived from taurine or protected amino acids...