Speaker: Prof. Ling Peng, research director in the Interdisciplinary Center on Nanoscience in Marseille (CINaM) at the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS)

Title: Self-assembling Supramolecular Dendrimer-based Nanomedicine

Time: 15:00 November 3rd, 2025 (Monday)

Venue: Conference Room 318, Building No.5

Host: Prof. Chunying Chen

Info. of Speaker：

Dr. Ling PENG is currently a research director in the Interdisciplinary Center on Nanoscience in Marseille (CINaM) at the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) in France. She has been working actively at the interface of chemistry and biology, and in particular, she has inaugurated the concept of self-assembling supramolecular dendrimers for delivering various pharmaceutical agents including anticancer drugs, nucleic acid therapeutics and imaging agents. Since 2016, her research team has been labelled by La Ligue contre Le Cancer, the largest private foundation in cancer research in France. 

Dr. Ling PENG is the Distinguished Member of French Chemical Society, and has been awarded with the Prize of Dr & Mme Henri Labbé of the French Academy of Sciences in 2017, the Grand Prize of the French Chemical Society SUD PACA and the Prize of André Collet in Supramolecular Chemistry of the French Chemical Society in 2024.

Abstract：

The application of nanotechnology is widely expected to bring breakthrough in medicine for disease treatment and diagnosis. Dendrimers are ideal precision materials for elaborating nanomedicine by virtue of their well-defined structure, multivalent cooperativity and nanosize per se. We have recently pioneered self-assembling supramolecular dendrimers for modular and adaptive delivery of imaging agents, nucleic acid therapeutics and anticancer drugs in cancer detection and treatment. Also, we have recently developed self-assembling dendrimers against infectious diseases caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens. Our studies offer a fresh perspective for exploiting the advantageous features of supramolecular dendrimers to reach the ultimate goal of nanomedicine.

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