Nanoscience and Bio-Inorganic Chemistry

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Nanoscience and Bio-Inorganic Chemistry

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Research Group coordinated by Patrick Gamez

ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona

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Amyloid diseases

Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, prions, etc.

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Cancer

Drug design, nanoparticle-based drug delivery, hyperthermia, photoactivation, etc.

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News

29-07-2025: 🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 The ChemDesign Team, led by Patrick Gamez, has secured funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) to advance cutting-edge research in the design and development of photoactive agents 💡 for the treatment of pancreatic and colorectal cancer 🧬🎯(Project with reference PID2024-159753OB-I00). This important milestone supports our mission to innovate in cancer therapy and improve patient outcomes. 💪🧪

22-07-2024: Patrick Gamez joins the IBUB (Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona).

26-06-2024: Guglielmo Spinelli presents a poster entitled "Ruthenium(II) thiocyanate complexes: moving from dye-sensitized solar cells to photodynamic therapy for cancer treatment" at the Annual Meeting of the IN2UB.

06-06-2024: Grant received from the AGAUR to develop a drug nanocarrier controlled by light. The project is led by Ana Belen Caballero.

01-04-2024: Carlos Moya joins nanoBIC.

01-05-2022: Martin Sojka joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher thanks to a grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación e Universidades (https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033) - Reference: PCI2021-122027-2B (Nanoassemblies for magnetic delivery and release of cancerostatic agents).

Ana Belen Caballero and Patrick Gamez published a MiniReview on nanochaperones in Angewandte Chemie.

July 27th, 2020: Kick-off meeting of the Spanish network MultiMetDrugs.

Jordi Grau, Amparo Caubet and Patrick Gamez publish a paper in ChemBioChem on cytotoxic copper(II) complexes. see the Cover Picture here

Important Conferences

June 15-18, 2025 - Uppsala - Sweden

17th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry

June 28-July 3, 2026 - Odense - Denmark

ICCCs represent the largest venue for the exchange of the latest knowledge in the field of coordination chemistry and related areas among researchers from all over the world.