M. Eugenio Vázquez Sentís

M. Eugenio Vázquez (1973) graduated in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1996, and obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. José Luis Mascareñas, working on synthetic DNA-binding peptides. In 2001 he received the ”Human Frontier Science Program" (HFSP) long-term fellowship and joined Prof. Barbara Imperiali at MIT, where he worked for three years on the development of caged compounds and fluorescent probes as tools for studying complex biological processes.

He returned to Santiago as a ”Ramón y Cajal” researcher in 2004, and received the ”Career Development Award” from the HFSP. He obtained his permanent position at the Organic Chemistry Department in 2010. In 2008 he received the Sigma-Aldrich Young Researchers Award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, and in 2010 he received the Lilly young researcher award.

Our research is characterized by a multidisciplinary problem-solving approach that includes organic synthesis, spectroscopy, biochemistry and computational chemistry, applied to the development of chemical tools for biological research, such as luminescent probes to monitor kinase activity, and biomolecular interactions, caged compounds for spatial and temporal control of the biological response, and DNA binding agents, including supramolecular metallopeptides targeting non-canonical DNA structures.

Personal website: http://www.chembiousc.gal