Welcome Alessia and Beatrice!

Welcome to Alessia Forte and Beatrice Corradi, both undergraduate students coming from Università Degli Studi Di Bari Aldo Moro and Università degli Studi di Parma, respectively, that join our group for a 6 month stay in order to develop their respective final degree projects.       

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Toni Viayna will be the UB-representative for the Coimbra Group thesis video contest

Toni Viayna has been chosen as the Universitat de Barcelona representative in the Coimbra Group 3-Minutes thesis (3MT) video contest and will participate in the european final against other universities. The title of the presentation was “Searching for the perfect key to close a door. Discovery and design of selective glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase inhibitors against Malaria’s…

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Dr. William Zamora’s new publication!

Dr. William Zamora, Prof. Josep Maria Campanera and Prof. F. Javier Luque have recently published a work in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.  In this article, they developed a lipophilicty pH-adapted scale that relies on theoretical estimates of distribution coefficients from conformational ensembles of aminoacids. Additionally, the journal have asked them to make a video…

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Axel’s new publication!

Prof. Axel Bidon-Chanal has recently published a collaboration work directed by Prof. Marçal Pastor, in the journal BBA Molecular Basis of Disease.  The research team has described a first case of a patient affected by dysfunctions in a nuceloside transporter of the SLC28 family. More specifically, they have identified mutations in the SLC28A1 gene, that…

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William’s PhD Thesis Defence

Next 22nd of February, William will defend his PhD thesis in the Aula Magna of Campus Diagonal of Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l’Alimentació at 11:00 a.m. The title of his presentation will be “Toward Refined Theoretical Models for the Description of Lipophilicity in Biomolecules”. Good luck!

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CBDD Group Retreat

Last 28th and 29th of January, CBCG group members attended the “CBDD Group Retreat”. The event was held in the “Alberg Centre Esplai”, in El Prat del Llobregat. This meeting was a good opportunity for the group members of Prof. F. Javier Luque, Prof. Xavier Barril and Prof. Carles Curutchet research teams, to carry out…

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Tiziana starts a 2 months-stay

In the context of the HPCEuropa3 programme, Tiziana is starting a 2 months-stay, in the group of Prof. Adrian Mullholland, the CCBioSim Lab, from the University of Bristol (UK). More specifically, she will be involved in a project devoted to identify new covalent inhibitors against beta-amyloid protein.

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