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Santiago Vazquez

Santiago Vazquez PhD

Pharmacy and Medicine
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Dr. Santi Vázquez studied Pharmacy (1986-91) and obtained his PhD (1996) in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the Universitat de Barcelona under the direction of Professor Pelayo Camps. After spending two years (1998-2000) in the Christopher Ingold Laboratories (University College London) with Professor William B. Motherwell as a Marie Curie Research Fellow, he returned to Barcelona. In 2001 he took up a researcher position as “Investigador Ramón y Cajal” and in 2005 he was promoted to his current permanent position as Professor at the Laboratori de Química Farmacèutica de la Universitat de Barcelona. Dr. Vázquez is a founder member of the Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB) and acts regularly as consultant for several chemical and pharmaceutical companies. His scientific interests include polycyclic cage compounds, drug synthesis, process optimization and free radical and computational chemistry. He is co-author of more than 50 papers and has coauthored three books on drug synthesis for undergraduates.
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