Sarah Chagri

Dr. Sarah Chagri is the Scientific Coordinator for Graduate Education and an active researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. She leads the graduate school at MPIP and represents the institute in the Max Planck Graduate Center with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In parallel, she pursues interdisciplinary research in the group of Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil, focusing on bioresponsive peptides and synthetic intracellular nanostructures to modulate immune cell function. She studied Biomedical Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and received her PhD summa cum laude in 2024 at MPIP, where she worked on bioresponsive nanomaterials for controlled intracellular assembly.

Selected Publications

Chagri, S.; Ng, D. Y. W.; Weil, T. Designing bioresponsive nanomaterials for intracellular self-assembly. Nature Reviews Chemistry 6, 320–338 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-022-00373-x

Chagri, S.; Maxeiner, K.; Silva, M. J. S. A.; Förch, L.; Link, J.; Roth, P.; Meyer, R.; Fetzer, J.; Kaltbeitzel, A.; Lieberwirth, I.; Landfester, K.; Wagner, M.; Ng, D. Y. W.; Weil, T. Intracellular Formation of Synthetic Peptide Nanostructures Causes Mitochondrial Disruption and Cell Death in Tumor Spheroids. Advanced Science 12(25), 2412606 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202412606