Ellen Sletten
Prof. Ellen Sletten is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2011 working in Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi’s laboratory developing bioorthogonal chemistries. She performed her postdoctoral work at MIT in Prof. Timothy Swager’s laboratory working on soft fluorous materials for fluorescent sensors. Since starting at UCLA in 2015, her group has focused on the development of enhanced therapeutics and diagnostics by leveraging “fluoro,” with “fluoro” referring to fluorine and/or fluorescence. Her work has been well-recognized by the community as noted by an NIH New Innovator Award, ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Awards, and the Helmholtz High Impact Award.
At MAF 2025, Prof. Sletten will present a talk on Multiplexed in vivo imaging with near and shortwave infrared polymethine fluorophores (schedule TBD).