Publications by Sandrine Gerber

Surface Functionalization of Nanocarriers with Anti-EGFR Ligands for Cancer Active Targeting

Active cancer targeting consists of the selective recognition of overexpressed biomarkers on cancer cell surfaces or within the tumor microenvironment, enabled by ligands conjugated to drug carriers. Nanoparticle (NP)-based systems are highly relevant for ...

MDPI2025

DNA Encapsulation in Polymeric-Based Nanomaterials for Authentication and Tracking

Sandrine Gerber, François Rémi Pierre Noverraz

Fuel theft poses a significant threat to economic stability, undermining governments revenues and global security while benefiting criminal networks. Combating this issue requires coordinated efforts including innovative technological solutions to secure t ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Emergence of highly coherent two-level systems in a noisy and dense quantum network

Sandrine Gerber, Gabriel Aeppli

Quantum sensors and qubits are usually two-level systems (TLS), the quantum analogues of classical bits assuming binary values 0 or 1. They are useful to the extent to which superpositions of 0 and 1 persist despite a noisy environment. The standard prescr ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Recent Advances in Alginate-Based Hydrogels for Cell Transplantation Applications

Sandrine Gerber, François Rémi Pierre Noverraz, Alireza Kavand

With its exceptional biocompatibility, alginate emerged as a highly promising biomaterial for a large range of applications in regenerative medicine. Whether in the form of microparticles, injectable hydrogels, rigid scaffolds, or bioinks, alginate provide ...

2024

FAP Targeting of Photosensitizer-Loaded Polymersomes for Increased Light-Activated Cell Killing

Sandrine Gerber

As current chemo- and photodynamic cancer therapies are associated with severe side effects due to a lack of specificity and to systemic toxicity, innovative solutions in terms of targeting and controlled functionality are in high demand. Here, we present ...

American Chemical Society2024

“Grafting-from” and “Grafting-to” Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) Functionalization of Glass for DNA Biosensors with Improved Properties

Mounir Driss Mensi, Sandrine Gerber, Pauline Skigin, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Alireza Kavand

Surface-based biosensors have proven to be of particular interest in the monitoring of human pathogens by means of their distinct nucleic acid sequences. Genosensors rely on targeted gene/DNA probe hybridization at the surface of a physical transducer and ...

MDPI AG2024

Modulating the Surface Properties of Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles by Multifunctional Coatings Using Water-in-Oil Microemulsions

Sandrine Gerber, Adrian Stefan Gheata, Manon Inès Noëlla Wittwer, Alessandra Spada

Inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) have emerged as promising tools in biomedical applications, owing to their inherent physicochemical properties and their ease of functionalization. In all potential applications, the surface functionalization strategy is a key ...

2023

Achieving high hybridization density at DNA biosensor surfaces using branched spacer and click chemistry

Mounir Driss Mensi, Sandrine Gerber, Lucas Mayoraz, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Alireza Kavand

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the necessity to develop fast, highly sensitive and selective virus detection methods. Surface-based DNA-biosensors are interesting candidates for this purpose. Functionalization of solid substrates with DNA must be pr ...

2023

Nonclassical Nucleation and Crystallization of LiNbO3 Nanoparticles from the Aqueous Solvothermal Alkoxide Route

Sandrine Gerber, Aurélien Bornet, Adrian Stefan Gheata

The exact molecular reaction pathway and crystallization mechanisms of LiNbO3 nanoparticles under solvothermal conditions are derived through extensive time- and temperature-resolved experiments allowing to track all the transient molecular and solid speci ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Tailoring the Hybridization Density of DNA Biosensors through Tunable Surface Functionalization

Mounir Driss Mensi, Sandrine Gerber, Lucas Mayoraz, Pauline Skigin, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin

DNA biosensors are promising candidates for the development of point-of-care diagnosis methods. They can be inserted in microfluidic platforms, are often non-expensive, and can be produced for a variety of targeted analytes. However, their development face ...

Wiley-VHCA AG2023

A DNA biosensors-based microfluidic platform for attomolar real-time detection of unamplified SARS-CoV-2 virus

Igor Stefanini, Mounir Driss Mensi, Sandrine Gerber, Roberto Robortella, Céline Marie Anne Journot, Lucas Mayoraz, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin

The emergence of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) arose the need for rapid, accurate and massive virus detection methods to control the spread of infectious diseases. In this work, a device, deployable in non-medical environments, has been developed for the ...

2023

Novel trehalose-based excipients for stabilizing nebulized anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody

Sandrine Gerber, François Rémi Pierre Noverraz, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard

COVID-19 is caused by the infection of the lungs by SARS-CoV-2. Monoclonal antibodies, such as sotrovimab, showed great efficiency in neutralizing the virus before its internalization by lung epithelial cells. However, parenteral routes are still the prefe ...

2023

Design and Preparation of Sensing Surfaces for Capacitive Biodetection

Sandrine Gerber, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin

Despite their high sensitivity and their suitability for miniaturization, biosensors are still limited for clinical applications due to the lack of reproducibility and specificity of their detection performance. The design and preparation of sensing surfac ...

2023

Precise determination of the low-energy electronuclear Hamiltonian of LiY1-xHoxF4

Michael Müller, Sandrine Gerber, Gabriel Aeppli

The insulating rare-earth magnet LiY1-xHoxF4 has received great attention because a laboratory field applied perpendicular to its crystallographic c axis converts the low-energy electronic spin Hamiltonian into the (dilute) transverse field Ising model. Th ...

2022

Core-shell Structured Chitosan-polyethylenimine Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery: Improved Stability, Cellular Uptake, and Transfection Efficiency

Sandrine Gerber, Laura Camille Louise Nicolle, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin

Gene therapy emerged as a promising treatment option for acquired and inherited diseases. The delivery of nucleic acids relies on vectors that condense and encapsulate their cargo. Especially non-viral gene delivery systems are of increasing interest. Howe ...

2022

Gd3+-Functionalized Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles for Dual Multiphoton and Magnetic Resonance Bioimaging

Sandrine Gerber, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Luigi Bonacina, Marinella Mazzanti, Katarzyna Pierzchala, Raphaël Jovita De Matos, Dario Diviani, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Adrian Stefan Gheata, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Laura Camille Louise Nicolle, Fiorella Lucarini

Harmonic nanoparticles (HNPs) have emerged as appealing exogenous probes for optical bioimaging due to their distinctive features such as long-term photostability and spectral flexibility, allowing multiphoton excitation in the classical (NIR-I) and extend ...

2022

Photoresponsive Nanocarriers Based on Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles for Harmonic Imaging and On-Demand Release of Anticancer Chemotherapeutics

Sandrine Gerber, Luigi Bonacina, Dario Diviani, Simon Kaiser, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Adrian Stefan Gheata

Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems have the potential for increasing the efficiency of chemotherapeutics by enhancing the drug accumulation at specific target sites, therebyreducing adverse side effects and mitigating patient acquired resistance. In ...

2022

Islet Encapsulation: New Developments for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes

Sandrine Gerber, Léo Bühler, Qixing Zhang, Yi Wang

Islet transplantation is a promising approach for the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Currently, clinical islet transplantation is limited by allo - and autoimmunity that may cause partial or complete loss of islet function within a short period of tim ...

2022

Recent Developments on the Use of Nanomaterials for the Treatment of Epilepsy

Sandrine Gerber, Sara María Garcia Pedrero

Epilepsy affects more than 40 million people worldwide, constituting one of the most debilitating disorders of the Central Nervous System (CNS). It results from an imbalance in the electrical activity of neurons, which is primarily mediated by calcium ions ...

2022

Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells derived from porcine exocrine pancreas improve insulin secretion from juvenile porcine islet cell clusters

Sandrine Gerber, Léo Bühler, Luca Szabó

Neonatal and juvenile porcine islet cell clusters (ICC) present an unlimited source for islet xenotransplantation to treat type 1 diabetes patients. We isolated ICC from pancreata of 14 days old juvenile piglets and characterized their maturation by immuno ...

2021