Ellen Sletten is an American chemist who is the John McTague Career Development Chair at University of California, Los Angeles.
[1] She earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry at Stonehill College, a liberal arts school in Easton, Massachusetts.
[3] She moved to the West Coast of the United States for her graduate studies, joining the laboratory of Carolyn R. Bertozzi at the University of California, Berkeley to work on bioorthogonal chemistry.
[2] In 2017 she realised non-toxic fluorescent compounds that emit in the short-wave infrared region (1000 – 2000 nm), making them appropriate for rapid, in vivo optical diagnostics.
[8] By combining the short-wave infrared (flavylium heterocycle-based) fluorophore with lasers and an appropriate camera, Sletten showed it was possible to capture multi-colour images of the veins and arteries of moving mice.