Lorente Crivillé, Adriana (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
Natural products from terrestrial plants and microorganisms have long been a traditional source of drugs. For centuries humans have been looking on their environment for medicines to treat illnesses. ...
Rocas Alonso, Pau (Date of defense: 2016-02-25)
This thesis, entitled "Multifunctional Self-stratified Polyurethane-Polyurea Nanosystems for Smart Drug Delivery" is structured as a compendium of publications, being organized around a methodological ...
Paradís Bas, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-05-15)
The known as "difficult peptides", as well as those sequences that aggregate in solution, are some of those molecules with high applicability as nanomaterials or even in medicine field. This thesis has ...
Just Baringo, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-11-25)
The present doctoral thesis has been devoted to the development of a new synthetic strategy to obtain a new member of the thiopeptide, or thiazolyl peptide, family of antibiotics. This new member, ...
Fransen, Peter (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
Dendrimers are a class of globular highly branched macromolecules with precise architecture. They consist of a multivalent surface with functional group, a core unit where branching starts, and the ...
Fernández-Llamazares Onrubia, Ana Iris (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)
Backbone N-methylation is becoming an increasingly important tool in peptide drug design, and has been widely used to optimize the activity and selectivity of peptide ligands as a result of conformational ...
Pelay Gimeno, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-02-15)
Pipecolidepsin A is a cyclodepsipeptide produced by a Homophymia marine sponge that has shown interesting anticancer properties against several human cancer cell lines. From a structural point of view, ...
Góngora Benítez, Miriam (Date of defense: 2013-02-08)
Synthesis of Cys-containing peptides has long been posed as an attractive challenge for peptide chemist. Protecting groups for the nucleophilic beta-thiol group of Cys residues must be stable during ...
Herraiz Cobo, Jesús (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
Mayotlide is a marine peptide isolated by PharmaMar S.A. from Spongia sp.. The sequence of the aminoacids were achieved by MS-MS spectrometry, where two of them were tryptophans. The NMR spectroscopy ...
Ramos Tomillero, Iván (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease that represents one of the principal causes of mortality in developed countries. Due to the social and economic implications of this pathology, tremendous efforts have ...