An interesting collaboration between MEDINA and CENAIM (ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador) was initiated last May. CENAIM activities are focused on the valuable and efficient use of marine biodiversity in strategic areas for the development of Ecuador R+D+i, such as human...
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▪ SLAS Europe 2018, June 27-29, Brussels – Belgium
Fundación MEDINA attended SLAS Europe 2018 and presented its integrated HTS platform for Natural Products Discovery. Examples were given of different drug discovery programs developed at MEDINA from its microbial Natural products libraries: discovery of a novel family...
▪ Marine Natural Products: Discovery and structure elucidation Workshop, June 25-28, Matosinhos- Portugal
Dr. Fernando Reyes, head of chemistry at MEDINA, gave a course on Natural Products dereplication strategies employed at MEDINA, including HRMS and NMR studies, as part of the Blue and Green project´s workshop organized at CIIMAR between the 25th and 28th of June. This...
▪ MEDINA at the 1st Meeting in Translational Pharmacology, 19-22 June, Santiago de Compostela
Dr. Olga Genilloud will give a lecture at the 1st meeting in Translational Pharmacology focused on the integration of Natural Products and Phenotypic Discovery Platforms to deliver unique novel molecules for pharmacological development. The first meeting in...
▪ Applied Natural Products: from discoveries to innovation, June 11-13, Palaiseau – France
Dr. Olga Genilloud, invited lecture at “Applied Natural Products: from discoveries to innovation”, an international symposium organized jointly by GDRI i-NPChem (a European network on Integrative Natural Product chemistry), ICSN (CNRS Institute of Natural Product...
▪ 10th International Symposium on Fungal Endophytes of Grasses, June 18 – 21, Salamanca (Spain)
Research on fungal endophytes of grasses is being a leading force in the booming field of plant biology and agriculture. Víctor González-Menéndez attended the 10th International Symposium on Fungal Endophytes of Grasses meeting in Salamanca presenting the poster:...
▪ MEDINA receives the Excellence in Research prize for its research line in new anti-infectives at the first edition of the “Granada, Town of Science and Innovation” Awards
The “Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo” welcomed last 14th of June the first edition of the “Granada, Town of Science and Innovation” Awards ceremony in which the town hall thanked the local scientific community for positioning Granada at the forefront of innovation and...
▪ Biopesticides Europe 2018, June, Amsterdam – Netherlands
Within the global efforts towards a sustainable agriculture, biopesticides offer an everyday more plausible alternative to the use of synthetic pesticides. Fundación MEDINA ´s microbial collection contains a large diversity of microorganisms able to fight important...
▪ I EIAMNP, Euroindoamerican Natural Products Meeting, 29th of May – 1st of June 2018, Madrid
MEDINA attended the I Euroindoamerican Natural Products Meeting held in Madrid from May 29th to the 1st of June. This meeting brought together scientists and academia, research institutions, industry and government to report on basic and applied research on natural...
▪ Dr Olga Genilloud awarded the GEPRONAT prize 2017 in Innovation in Natural Products Chemistry Research, 30 th of May, Madrid – Spain
Our scientific director, Dra. Olga Genilloud, has been awarded the GEPRONAT 2017 award in Innovation in Natural Products Chemistry Research by the Spanish Royal Chemistry Society. With a focus on the production of new microbial Natural Products, the development of...