Concepción González Bello

Tel.: 
+34 8818 15726
Email: 
concepcion.gonzalez.bello [at] usc.es
Departament: 
Química Orgánica
Research group: 
Full Professor

Concepción González-Bello, born in Vigo (Pontevedra, Spain) and graduated in Chemistry with honours at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1989), obtained her PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) in 1994 under the supervision of Profs. Enrique Guitián and Luis Castedo. During her PhD studies, she did two predoctoral stays, first in the University of Gent (Gent, Belgium, 1991) with Prof. M. Vandewalle and then in the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, USA, 1992) with Prof. K. C. Nicolaou.

After a postdoctoral stay as an EC-fellow in the University of Cambridge (UK) with Prof. Chris Abell (1994-96), she joined the University of Santiago de Compostela as an Assistant Professor in 1996. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and obtained the spanish habilitation to full Professor in 2011. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the journals Advanced Therapeutics (2018-), ACS Omega (2021-) and ChemMedChem (2010-2020) and an academic editor of PLOS ONE (2015-). Since May 2019, she is one of the managers of the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), in the subarea "Chemical Sciences and Technologies.

Her main research interest is to develop new therapies for infections caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens involved in healthcare-associated systems, either by disabling unexplored targets or the cell-cell communication systems, or by blocking the sophisticated bacterial machinery to cause antibiotic resistance. She is an expert in the structure-, motion- and mechanism-based design of compounds, as well as in the simulation studies of biomacromolecules to understand protein plasticity, the motion of multi-domain proteins controlled by long-range interactions, as well as ligand binding. She is also interested in X-ray crystallography of the enzyme-inhibitor complexes.