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Introduction to the vacant position:

The Quasi-Living Materials Research Group is looking for a PhD student to conduct fundamental research in the areas of organic and polymer synthesis, self-assembly and biophysics towards the development of Super predatory synthetic vesicles. The contract will be within the framework of the Project PhagoSynCell (ERC CoG). Our ambition is to create drug-free, living-like therapeutics , opening radical new avenues in the fight against multidrug resistance. We will create synthetic cells that fight bacteria using a biomimetic form of artificial phagocytosis, a process to date only observed in living organisms. Towards this aim, we recently discovered that supramolecular amphiphilic comb polymers (iCPs, /advs. and ...