Research

12/09/2022

CIQUS scientists in collaboration with UCM researchers have prepared a fully functionalized peptide fullerene hybrid that specifically recognizes the E-selectin protein receptor.

 
10/08/2022

The interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from CiQUS and IMDEA Nanociencia has been key in this work, recently published in Chemical Science.

 
22/07/2022

New study published in Angewandte Chemie by CiQUS researchers concludes that photochemical degradation in helical polymers is directly related to their dynamic helical behavior.

 
14/07/2022

CiQUS's new collaboration with IBM researchers has been featured on the cover of Science magazine.

 
23/03/2022

CiQUS researchers report in Nature a novel mechanism for cargo transport across biological membranes that does not rely on amphiphilicity.

 
27/12/2021

The new grant is part of the CaixaResearch Consolidate call, a program that supports innovative and mature projects in the field of biomedicine.

 
23/12/2021

CiQUS researchers in collaboration with IBM Research performed on-surface intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction for the first time, unequivocally demonstrating that the reaction has occurred.

 
22/11/2021

CiQUS Principal Investigator Miguel Vázquez receives a grant from the Asociación Española contra el Cáncer in the category "Ideas Semilla".

 
08/11/2021

CiQUS researchers show that a self-assembled fibrillar system generated from very simple molecules leads to functional responses in protocells.

 
22/09/2021

In the study, now published in Nature Communications, CiQUS researchers synthesized molecular precursors for graphene nanoribbons using solution chemistry.

 
08/09/2021

Investigadores del CiQUS desarrollan una tecnología catalítica que permite sintetizar productos bioactivos en células de mamífero.

 
28/07/2021

CiQUS researchers describe a new method for accessing conjugated dienes in a very simple and effective way, employing a borylated dendralene as the main component.

 
14/07/2021

CiQUS researchers have developed a biocompatible ruthenium catalyst that enables highly selective reactions to be performed in biological media.

 
02/06/2021

Investigadores del CiQUS emplean reacciones fotoquímicas para desenrollar las hélices de polímeros helicoidales y determinar así su estructura.

 
25/05/2021

CiQUS researchers develop a broad-spectrum inhibitor to fight P. aeruginosa, the paradigm of bacterial resistance to antibiotics.

 
11/05/2021

A new CiQUS study published in ACS Nano evaluates the behavior of cyclic peptide nanotubes to transport water across the cell membrane.

 
22/04/2021

CiQUS researchers design a strategy that allows the delivery of antibodies inside the cell without damaging its membrane.

 
19/04/2021

CiQUS researchers design a new treatment conducted in mice to prevent memory deterioration without undesirable side effects. Results of this preclinical study has now been published in ACS Nano.

 
18/02/2021

This study results of collaboration between different groups at the centre and has now been published and highlighted in the front cover of the renowned journal Angewandte Chemie Int. Edition. 

 
15/01/2021

CiQUS will be involved in REAP, a newly European project to reveal drug tolerant persister cells by contrast enhanced multimodal optical imaging. BioNanoTools, the group led by Beatriz Pelaz, will develop contrast agents capable of identifying these cells.