Illuminating Antibiotic Drug Discovery, 08/05/2025

Την Πέμπτη, 8 Μαΐου 2025 και ώρα 10:00 π.μ., στην Αίθουσα Σεμιναρίων (Ισόγειο, Βόρειο Κτίριο, Τμήμα Χημείας), θα έχουμε τη χαρά και την τιμή να φιλοξενήσουμε την:

Assos. Prof. Raquel G. Soengas (University of Oviedo, Spain)
με τίτλο διάλεξης:

“Illuminating Antibiotic Drug Discovery”

Η διάλεξη πραγματοποιείται στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility και του ΠΜΣ «Ιατρική Χημεία και Χημική Βιολογία», και απευθύνεται σε ευρύ επιστημονικό κοινό. Όλα τα μέλη της πανεπιστημιακής κοινότητας, και ιδιαίτερα οι μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές, είναι θερμά προσκεκλημένοι.

 
 
Abstract: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health disaster that already kills 700,000 people a year and is expected to cause 10 million deaths a year by 2050 if the current situation is not improved. Antibiotics, which have enabled us to treat deadly bacterial infections and save many lives, are now less and less effective due this resistance.
The antibiotic drugs pipeline needs new families of non-conventional structures, structures that bacteria are unaware of and will struggle generating resistance to. Photocatalysis gives access to an unexplored chemical space and been recognized as the most powerful emerging technology for antibiotic discovery. To illustrate the potential of photocatalysis in antibiotic development I selected several examples from our most recent work.
 
 
Short Biography: Prof. Raquel Soengas was born in Lugo, (Spain) in 1975. She studied Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she received her PhD in 2003. She joined the group of Prof. Fleet at the University of Oxford (UK) as postdoctoral researcher. In 2005, she was appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of A Coruña (Spain), where she started her independent research career. In 2021, she was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Oviedo (Spain). She has published over 100 papers. Her research interests focus on the synthesis of pharmacologically relevant compounds using organometallic reagents and photocatalyzed transformations.