Universitat de Barcelona
Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica
Room 205B
Martí i Franquès 1-11
08028 Barcelona - Spain
08028 Barcelona - Spain
Publications:
261
H-index: 61 (WoS)
Citations:
> 15340
ORCID: 0000-0003-2602-9525
Researcher ID: B-3610-2012
Scopus Author ID: 7003852716
Patrick Gamez
ICREA Research Professor
Coordinator of nanoBIC
- Leader of the Team "Chem Design"
Patrick Gamez earned his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Université Claude Bernard Lyon I (France), specializing in enantioselective catalysis. He then joined the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Germany) as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, where he focused on organometallic chemistry involving chromium(II) compounds.
Following his postdoctoral research in Germany, he returned to France as an industrial postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Strasbourg, working under a contract with UCB Pharma (Belgium) in the field of bio-organic chemistry. In 1999, he moved to Leiden University (The Netherlands), where he served as a senior postdoctoral fellow. There, he led a research team of approximately 10 early-career scientists, including BSc and MSc students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers. Over a decade at Leiden, his research encompassed biomimetic oxidation catalysis (as models of copper-containing enzymes), copper-based cytotoxic complexes, spin-transition compounds, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).
On October 1, 2010, he was appointed an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona (UB), specializing in bioinorganic chemistry. In 2011, he founded the research group Nanoscience and Bio-Inorganic Chemistry (nanoBIC) [www.nanobic.eu], with initial funding from the Spanish government (CTQ2011-27929-C02-01). Since its inception, the group has secured continuous funding (CTQ2014-55293-P, CTQ2017-88446-R, PID2020-115537RB-I00). nanoBIC was recognized as an Emerging Research Group in 2014 (2014 SGR 85), a Pre-Consolidated Group in 2017 (2017 SGR 67), and a Consolidated Group in 2022 (2021 SGR 668) by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Patrick Gamez is (co-)author of over 261 peer-reviewed publications (h-index: 61; >15,340 citations) and has delivered 93 oral presentations at national and international conferences. He has participated in two COST Actions (CM1003 and CM1105) and coordinated a Network of Excellence comprising 10 leading Spanish research groups (CTQ2015-70371-REDT), which was expanded in 2018 (RED2018-102471-T) with him leading the Barcelona node. He has also been involved in a French-Spanish research network funded by the CNRS and the University of Barcelona, serving as coordinator of Working Group 4: Bio(in)organic Chemistry and Health.
Since joining UB in 2010, Patrick Gamez has published 90 scientific articles—averaging 6.4 per year. The nanoBIC group has trained 7 PhD students (with two additional theses ongoing), 25 master's students, and over 30 undergraduate final-year students. The group has also hosted 5 postdoctoral researchers and around 30 Erasmus students from 17 different countries.
His current research interests lie in the development of innovative therapeutic and diagnostic strategies based on metal complexes for treating cancer and amyloid-related diseases. He is particularly focused on the light-activation of prodrugs to enhance selectivity and efficacy, as well as the application of nanoparticles for drug delivery and as enhancers of the photophysical properties of coordination compounds.
Patrick Gamez currently serves as President of the Spanish Bioinorganic Chemistry Society (AEBIN). He is also a member of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), and sits on the Advisory Board of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (Impact Factor = 6.1). He previously served as an Associate Editor for RSC Advances (2015–2017; IF = 3.9) and has been a Fellow of the RSC since June 2016.
His full CV can be found here.