Eddy Sotelo Pérez

Eddy Sotelo graduated in Chemistry at the University of Havana (1993) and obtained his PhD in 2000 under the guidance of Professor Enrique Raviña, at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Santiago de Compostela. His post-doctoral experience has been developed in multidisciplinary research projects, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry, (University of Vienna, University Pompeu Fabra, University of Vigo, University of Bari).

In 2006 he joined the Institute of Industrial Pharmacy of the University of Santiago de Compostela as a Parga Pondal fellow, where he founded the Combinatorial Chemistry Unit (2006) and the COMBIOMED group (2008). In 2011 he became associate professor (Senior Lecturer) of Organic Chemistry & Medicinal Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Santiago and since April 2023 Eddy is Full Professor of Medicinal Chemistry.

His research develops at pre-clinical phases of drug discovery, in close collaboration with groups from different disciplines. In this area he focuses on the development of high throughput synthetic methodologies as tools to accelerate the generation, identification and optimization of new candidates (Lead Generation and Lead Optimization), establish structure-activity relationships (SAR), the validation of new therapeutic strategies and the development of bivalent fluorescent pharmacological probes.