Ana Belén Caballero
Universitat de Barcelona
Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica
Room 208B
Martí i Franquès 1-11
08028 Barcelona - Spain
08028 Barcelona - Spain
Publications:
45
H index: 22 (Scopus)
Citations:
> 960
ORCID: 0000-0001-9294-9085
Researcher ID: I-1820-2014
Ana Belén Caballero
Associate Professor
Leader of the Team "Nano"
Ana Belén Caballero studied Chemistry at the Universidad de Granada - UGR (Spain). She pursued doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Juan M. Salas, and obtained her PhD in 2010 with the highest qualification (cum laude
and UGR Award). During her PhD, she synthesized metal complexes with nucleobase mimetics and studied their structural, spectroscopic, magnetic and antiparasitic properties. Some of these compounds were patented as they showed great pharmaceutical interest (low cost and high efficacy in vivo; patent ES2436220A1).
She subsequently moved to the UK to work with Prof. Mike Hannon for 2.5 years as a postdoctoral fellow. During this period, she developed a new concept of anticancer drug design: DNA-interacting nanoparticles to enhance the antitumor efficacy of transported metallodrugs with controlled release.
In 2014, she returned to Spain to join nanoBIC
where she carrying out extremely challenging and exciting research on the design and development of anti-Alzheimer agents, and the elucidation of the role of metals in amyloid-related toxicity. She is also involved in investigations on DNA-metal complex interactions in the context of fruitful international collaborations.
Ana Belén is deeply interested in innovative teaching and outreach; hence, she participates in numerous activities with the idea that Science always needs to be spread out of the labs in the most beautiful and effective ways.