Welcome Giorgia!

Welcome to Giorgia Frumenzio, who comes from the Università degli Studi di Parma and has join the group for a 6-month stay to work in a project dealing with evaluation of human and Daphnia magna RXR endocrine disruption activity by pesticides, within a Erasmus traineeship program.

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Elnaz attended the EUROPIN Summer School

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Our group member, Elnaz Aledavood has attended the EUROPIN Summer School on Drug Design, that took part in Vienna (Austria) from 15th to 20th of September. In a general way, the program of the event is focused in showing an overview of the main approaches and techniques used in computational drug design,…

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Javier Vázquez’s PhD Thesis Defence

Last 13th of September, Javier Vázquez succesfully defended his PhD thesis in the Aula Magna of Campus Diagonal of Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l’Alimentació. The title of his presentation was “On the usage of lipophilic descriptors for molecular similarity evaluation”. His PhD thesis has been carried out in the context of a Industrial PhD, in a…

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SAMPL6 World Blind Challenge

We are pleased to announce that our method of continuous solvation obtained one of the best performances for the calculation of lipophilicity of small molecules in the world blind challenge organized by Drug Design Data Resource (https://drugdesigndata.org).  Dr. William Zamora collaborate in the refinement of the IEFPCM-based MST model developed in Barcelona. These results will be presented in a…

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Toni’s PhD Thesis Defence

Last 19th of July, Toni Viayna succesfully defended his PhD thesis in the Sala Les Voltes of Campus Torribera of Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l’Alimentació. The title of his presentation was “Methodological developments in the exploration of bioactive species in drugs: Search of antimalarial agents”.

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Tiziana and Elnaz participated in the XXXV XRQTC Annual Meeting

Last 18th of July, Tiziana Ginex and Elnaz Aledavood took part in the XXXV XRQTC (Xarxa de Referència en Química Teòrica i Computacional) Annual Meeting. The first participated with an oral communication entitled “N-Benzyl 4,4-disubstituted piperidines as a potent class of influenza H1N1 virus inhibitors showing a novel mechanism of hemaglutinin fusion peptide interaction” and the second…

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Toni participated in the 19th SEQT Meeting

Last 9th of July, Toni Viayna participated in the 19th SEQT (Sociedad Española de Química Terapéutica) Meeting, presenting his work entitled “On the bioactive species of azocine-based AChE inhibitors: interplay between activity and tautomerism”. The meeting was held in the Facultad de Farmacia of Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU) in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz from 8th to…

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