Garcia Pindado, Júlia (Date of defense: 2017-05-12)
The present thesis is based on the development and optimization of a solid-phase strategy to prepare biaryl bicyclic pentapeptides. Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions were used to obtain the biaryl ...
Donoghue, Craig (Date of defense: 2019-07-24)
The thesis consists of two main projects: a) the development of a novel strategy to gain genetic control with spatiotemporal precision, and b) the optimisation of inhibitors of the protein kinase p38α, ...
Guardiola Bagán, Salvador (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and protein surfaces are considered challenging targets for drug discovery. In this field, conventional medicinal chemistry (i.e. small molecules) has largely failed ...
Díaz Perlas, Cristina (Date of defense: 2018-03-07)
Peptides play a critical role in human physiology and harbour a huge potential as therapeutic agents. In this thesis, new peptides have been discovered as ligands for the epidermal growth factor (EGF) ...
Mas Moruno, Carlos (Date of defense: 2009-03-05)
La sepsis es un síndrome muy complejo de definir, diagnosticar y tratar. La patología de la sepsis se deriva de una respuesta perjudicial del organismo a una infección. La exposición a endotoxinas ...
Ciudad Fernández, Sonia (Date of defense: 2016-11-08)
The present thesis is based on the work developed about the use of peptides and small proteins in protein surface molecular recognition. Peptides present several advantages when compared with small ...