Speaker：Virgil Percec (University of Pennsylvania)

Time：9:00 AM on December 13, 2025

Location: C1-b115, GuangzhouInternational Campus,SCUT  

Abstract:

Our laboratory is involved in the development of new synthesis methodologies and new concepts demanded to design complex molecular systems. After a brief discussion of all topics of research from our laboratory, this lecture will present several new synthethic methods elaborated in our laboratory, followed by their use in the design of several new self-organizations. The  lecture will conclude with a discussion of the development of amphiphilic Janus densrimers assembling dendrimersomes as mimics of the cell membrane, amphiphilic Janus glycodendrimers with self-assemble glycodendrimersomes, as mimics of the gycans of the cell membranes, and last but not least, the discovery and development of one component systems for the targeted delivery of mRNA as well as  the development of therapeutics and vaccines based on one-component delivery systems.

Biography: 

David A. WEITZ is the Mallingkrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, where he has appointment in both the Physics Department and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his PhD in physics from Harvard, and then worked at Exxon Research and Engineering for nearly 18 years. He then was a professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania before joining to Harvard, where he leads the experimental soft condensed matter physics research group. His research efforts include soft matter physics, biophysics and biotechnology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Science.