A. Biological and Medicinal Chemistry

This research area at the frontier with supramolecular chemistry, nanotechnology and biomedicine aims to discover new molecular tools for biological research as well as for developing new therapy and diagnosis approaches to prevalent 21st century’s diseases, such as cancer, Alzheimer or multi-Resistant infections. This area covers aspects of both fundamental and applied science, from the study of the molecular bases of different biological mechanisms, to the development of new drugs and novel drug transport and delivery strategies.

 

AC Mascareñas / López / Gulías

Synthesis and catalysis: discovery and development of innovative catalytic methodologies.

Chemical biology and biomedicine: a) synthesis of molecular systems to interfere with and/or sense biological processes, b) development of novel biomedical tools; c) merging metal catalysis with cell biology. (video)

AB Quiñoá / Fernández-Megía / Estévez
Helical Polymers: Sensors and Nanostructures (video)
Nanostructures:  Biomedical Applications (video)
Carbohydrate Chemistry: Novel Applications in Biological Chemistry and Material Sciences
AD Granja / Montenegro / García-Fandiño
Supramolecular Chemistry based on Peptide nanotubes: Self-assembly and functional properties. (video)
Chemical Biology: Novel strategies to cross the lipid bilayer for gene therapy
Multiscale Simulations & Molecular visualization: Computational chemistry apply to the study of the origin of life
Vázquez López - Vázquez Sentís
A Vázquez López / Vázquez Sentís
Biological Organic Chemistry: Peptides for molecular recognition. Photochemistry. Chemical tools to study mitochondria
 
Biological Inorganic Chemistry: DNA Recognition Agents, Molecular Sensors and Devices
A González-Bello

Antibacterials: Innovative approaches to face the superbug challenge. Unexplored targets. Drugs with novel mechanism of action. New diagnosis kits.

BenaventeCostas
A Martínez-Costas
Molecular Virology (video)
IC-tagging technology platform: Virus-based biotechnological applications
A Sotelo

Combinatorial Chemistry in Biomedicine

A Orosa

Our research is focused on understanding how plant immune responses are regulated by ubiquitination, willing to exploiting this knowledge to produce disease resistant barley through proteome engineering.

A Insua

Supramolecular therapeutics: cytotoxic agents whose action is controlled by self- assembly with application as antimicrobials and antitumoral agents.

Cooperative behaviour: supramolecular nanostructuras whose monomers perform collective tasks like molecular recognition and self-replication.