In the context of the construction of a National Marine Biodiscovery Laboratory in Ireland, Dr. Fernando Reyes, Head of Chemistry at MEDINA, was invited to participate at a one-day workshop on the 4th of September by the Marine Institute of Ireland together with other...
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▪ 3rd European Conference on Natural Products, 2 – 5 September, Frankfurt – Germany
In September 2018, the 3rd European Conference on Natural Products featured recent advances in secondary metabolite research. With a special emphasis on networking opportunities, the posters exhibition and the interaction of academic and industrial research...
▪ Fundación MEDINA improves transference of MEDINA’s Microbial Natural Products extracts using the Labcyte Echo® Liquid Handler
Fundación MEDINA improves transfer of MEDINA’s Microbial Natural Products extracts into assay plates using the Labcyte Echo® Liquid Handler. Natural products and derivatives are at the origin of a broad range of drugs developed to fight major diseases that threaten...
▪ Foundation MEDINA explores the Andalusian biodiversity in search of molecules with antufungal and antitumoral activity
PRESS RELEASE A project that counted with the participation of the Andalusian government, published in Scientific Reports of Nature, analyzed the diversity of fungal endophytes from 63 endemic plants collected in the Desert of Tabernas (Almería) or in Saladar del...
▪ Project: “MDN-0005 as a new therapeutic tool for the muscular regeneration and the inflammatory response in DMD”
The Duchenne Parent Project association funds a new research project focused on therapeutic applications of MEDINA’s compound MDN-005 on Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This two years research program, will be developed under the leadership of the Doctors Francisco...
▪ MEDINA collaboration with CENAIM in Marine Drug Discovery – Ecuador
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...
▪ 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...