CiQUS researcher Eduardo Fernández-Megía has been invited to give a lecture today at the research center «Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF)» of the University of Freiburg, within the framework of a network that involves other European universities, as the University of Basel or the University of Strasbourg. In this presentation, the preparation of GATG dendrimers and some of their biomedical applications (AAPS J. 2014, 16, 948) will be shown along with a comprehensive NMR relaxation study on the dynamics of dendrimers that shows profound differences between the relaxation behaviour of dendrimers and linear polymers (JACS, 2013, 135, 11513 and JACS, 2013, 135, 1972).
About Fernández-Megía
Eduardo Fernandez-Megia completed a PhD in Chemistry in 1995 at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Cambridge (Prof. Steven V. Ley, 1997-99), he returned to USC as a Marie Curie Fellow and Associated Professor. In 2003, he became Ramon y Cajal Fellow and in 2008 was appointed Prof. Contratado Doctor at the Department of Organic Chemistry. Two years later he was promoted to Profesor Titular and since 2011 works at the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS) at USC.
His research is focused on the interface between organic and polymer chemistry with emphasis on the preparation of well-defined polymeric nanostructures for biomedical applications and the development of NMR tools for their characterization. With this aim his group relies on dendrimers, synthetic polymers, and polysaccharides. The efficient conjugation of these multivalent structures to ligands of biomedical interest affords novel drug delivery systems, diagnosis agents, and tools to study the complex mechanisms governing multivalent interactions. The characterization of polymeric nanostructures and complex mixtures by NMR relaxation is used to develop procedures for the accelerated recording of NMR spectra and selective suppressions.