Dr. Rosario Sanchez-Martin
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Dr. Rosario M. Sanchez-Martin
graduated in Pharmacy in 1997 from the University of Granada
( Spain ). Afterwards she started her PhD in Prof. Espinosas
Group in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Granada
University where she worked in the design, synthesis and evaluation
of novel inhibitors of the Ras/Choline Kinase pathway, as
potential anti-cancer drugs. During her PhD she joined Prof.
Barbe of Faculty of Pharmacy at Marseille (France) where she
worked on the synthesis and evaluation of heterocyclic compounds
as antimalarial drugs and Prof. Bradleys group at the University
of Southampton (UK), where she worked in the synthesis and
evaluation of peptoids as carrier systems, as a visiting researcher.
In 2002, after completing her PhD at Granada University ,
she took on a position as a post-doctoral researcher in Prof.
Bradleys group where she worked in the synthesis of transporters,
capable of being able to be taken up by cells, and their subsequent
functionalization with biomolecules for development as carrier
systems. Recently, she started her own research project in
collaboration with Prof. Bradley at the University of Edinburgh
(UK) after she was awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship by
the Royal Society for developing cell-based HT screening assays.
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Dr. Juan Jose Diaz-Mochon
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Juanjo
was born in 1973 in Jaen ( Spain ). He graduated in Granada
in 1996 from the Pharmacy faculty. He spent one year as an
Erasmus student in Perugia under the supervision of Prof.
Pellicciari where he worked with bilial acid synthesis. He
then started his PhD in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry
at Granada University where he worked on the design, synthesis
and evaluation of novel inhibitors of the Ras/Cholin Kinase
pathway, as potential anti-cancer drugs. During his PhD he
joined Prof. Baraldi Group at Ferrara , where he worked on
adenosinic antagonists and purine synthesis. In 2001 he completed
his PhD at Granada University , followed by a short spell
working for FAES , S.A. developing novel COX-2 inhibitors.
In early 2002, he joined Prof. Bradley Group. His initial
project included the use of DNA microarray technologies which
has allowed them to interface DNA arrays with combinatorial
libraries. PNA-encoded libraries were developed and successful
used to study kinases and proteases for the very first time
by Juanjo and Laurent Bialy, an important mention goes to
Lise Keinicke . Currently 10,000 member libraries are being
tested in order to profile different enzymes while other PNA-encoded
strategies are being developed. One of the ongoing projects
is the use of cell-based microarrays. Following the successful
application of reverse transfection microarrays to study transfection
agent libraries and the experience achieved by the Bradley
group in the development of polymer arrays (see Guilhem Tourniaire
profile), collaborations with Tim Elliot and Salim Khakoo
are underway to exploit the huge potential of this technology.
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Dr. Asier Unciti-Broceta
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Asier was born in
La Linea de la Concepcion, provincia de Cadiz, (Spain) in
1976. He happily lived in Algeciras (good weather, good beaches,
and good food) until finishing High School in 1994. Then he
moved to Granada (not so good weather, nor beaches, but snow,
good parties and good food) to study Pharmacy. After graduation
in 1999, he joined the Medicinal Chemistry Department of University
of Granada to perform his main passion, research. Meanwhile
he was looking for supports to start his doctorate (in Spain
that is a challenge), he was working several months as a pharmacist
in a hospital of Granada and in a pharmacy shop of Algeciras.
Thanks to the Fundacion Ramon Areces grant, he could start
to work in the Espinosa Group and thus drive his life to the
world of the inventions. As a result, he did a PhD in Medicinal
Chemistry in the University of Granada. His project was centered
in the synthesis of new heterocyclic compounds as adenosine
receptor antagonists. However, his principal goals were achieved
in heterocyclic synthesis. During the second year of his PhD,
Asier was in the Baraldi Group of the University of Ferrara
( Italy) for nine months, where he undoubtedly realized that
researcher life was his life. In December 2004 he became Doctor
of Philosophy and, finally, he joined the Bradley Group in
July of 2005, in which he is developing new high-throughput
transfection methods and gene delivery reagents. Asier is a voyager. He has been in the most
important and beautiful European cities and, with a few exceptions,
in its respective major festivities (Carnavales de Cadiz,
Carnivale di Venezia, Fallas de Valencia, San Fermines de
Pamplona, Feria de Sevilla, Feria de Malaga, Corpus and Cruces
de Granada, St Patrick Day of Dublin, Primo Maggio di Roma,
Ombralonga di Treviso, Palio di Siena, Festival of Edinburgh,
etc) because he loves researching new places and new people.
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Dr. Ferdous Khan
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Ferdous joint the group in March
2006 after a postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University
( Canada ). He studied the “Structure / morphology
and properties of polymers, smart materials and composites,
solvent-induced crystallization / phase separation, polymer
blends, Influence of supercritical fluids on the properties
of polymers, and computational modelling” during
his fellowship at Carleton. In 1999, he earned his PhD degree
from Cranfield University (UK) in the area of polymer
science. He received his post-secondary education from
Dhaka University in Bangladesh . Currently, he is investigating
the “Polymeric Vehicles for Cellular Delivery
and Gene Therapy” mainly based on biodegradable
polymer and stem cells.
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Dr. Rong Zhang
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Rong Zhang (Li-zhong Zhang) was born
in Chongqing, China. He graduated from the Sichuan University
in polymer chemistry and engineering in 1992. He obtained
his M.Sc degree from the Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995, and then he worked until
2000. In 2003, Rong earned his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
from Sheffield University in the area of the conducting polymer
composites, under the Supervision of Professor Peter V. Wright.
Since then he was employed as a postdoc in the same department.
He joined Professor Bradley group in 2006. His project is
mainly about the developing biocompatible polymer micro-arrays
for cellular growth and release with applied stimuli.
In his spare time he likes hiking, playing badminton, reading,
talking and playing games with his daughter.
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Dr. Antonio Bella
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Antonio F. Bella was born in S. Lucia
del Mela, a small medieval town on the Northeast coast of
Sicily , ( Italy ). He graduated in Chemistry at the University
of Messina . After graduation he briefly joined the Italian
forces where he was trained in handling explosive materials
as Artificere in a military school. Here he obtained a certificate
in manipulation of explosives. In 2003, he gained his PhD
from the University of St. Andrews (UK), in Organic Synthesis,
Radical Chemistry and EPR Spectroscopy, under the supervision
of Prof. John C. Walton. In 2004, Antonio joined Prof. Carmen’s
Claver group with a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellowship, at
the University Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona , Spain . The project
was part of the “Palladium Network” inside the
European fifth framework, in the field of Homogeneous Catalysis.
Due to his interest in Life Sciences, in September 2006 he
started postdoctoral studies in Prof. Mark Bradley’s
group at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His project is part
of a multidisciplinary consortium linking materials science,
through chemistry with molecular and chemical biology and
stem cell biology. The team will develop encoded delivery
mechanisms for biological macromolecules and phenotypic based
screens in ES cells. In his spare time Antonio enjoys a variety
of sports, he likes travelling, clubbing and all consequences
that might derive.
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Dr. Ivan Trkulja |
Ivan grew up in Belgrade where he completed
his studies in Organic Chemical Engineering. After one year
internship at Division for Musculoskeletal Diseases of Novartis
Pharma in Basel (2002), he moved to Robert Haener's group
at the University of Bern where he did his Ph.D. in Chemistry
of DNA Triple Helixes. He joined the group as in September
2007 and is enjoying life in Edinburgh.
Ivan likes travelling, learning foreign languages, cinema
and cooking specialties from the Balkans.
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Adam Belsom
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Adam was born in Ashford
, Kent (1981) and grew up in the area known as The Garden
of England, famous for its white cliffs and stoic people.
He graduated with a double honours degree in Chemistry and
Biochemisty from the University of Southampton in 2004. Adam
travelled to the American Midwest where he worked as a salesperson
before arriving back in the UK working as a peptide chemist
for 6 months at Activotec Southampton. In May 2005 Adam joined
the Bradley Group at the University of Edinburgh as a PhD
student to work on dynamic combinatorial library synthesis
on microarrays supported by Tripos Inc. Outside the laboratory
Adam spends his time tasting whisky. Adam watches mostly independent
films. He is happiest when he is on his bike or at the top
of a big hill.
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Albert Liberski
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My research project is focused on
interfacing ink-jet printing technologies with combinatorial
methods. The research includes high throughput micro-scale
polymer library syntheses and their use in the development
of a variety of screening techniques. Ink-jet technology
will make possible the fabrication of polymer micro-arrays
using novel concepts such as gradient and multi-spotting
formulations. These micro-arrays will be used as new platforms
to carry out screenings ranging from biological to physical
studies.
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Aleksandra Liberska
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Aleksandra (Ola) was
born in Poznan in Poland in 1979. She has graduated from Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznan in 2003, Faculty of Chemistry
and after these studies she has completed postgraduate studies
at the University of Economics in Poznan in 2003. Ola has
a certificate an Internal Auditor of Integrated Management
Systems according to ISO 9001:2001 and ISO 14001:1996.
In September 2005 Ola joined the Bradley Group at University
of Edinburgh as a PhD student to work on solid-phase synthesis
of amphiphilic dendrimers for DNA delivery.
Outside the lab Ola spends her time reading, walking and shopping.
She loves polish food.
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Alessandra Chighine
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Alessandra was born
in Alghero, a nice city in the north of Sardinia. She studied
Chemistry at "Universita degli Studi di Sassari"
where she graduated in July 2003. She started her PhD in the
CCE (Combinatorial Centre of Excellence) in January 2004 under
the supervision of Prof. Mark Bradley and Dr. Bruno Linclau
(University of Southampton). Her research is focused on developing
new solid supported reagents for alkylation reaction using
microwave technology. Outside the lab she enjoy reading, travelling
...and like all the Italians, she loves eating pasta.
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Antonio Fara
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Delphine Pouchain
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Delphine was born
in Amiens , North of France, in 1981. She graduated with a
5-year-university degree DEA in Chemistry of Biomolecules,
at the University of Montpellier II . During that time, she
also did two 6 month placements at the Amino acids, Peptides
and Proteins Laboratory (LAPP) in the University of Montpellier
II . She joined the Bradley group in October 2004 and is currently
working on Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNAs) and microarrays. In
her spare time, she enjoys going to the cinema, reading, swimming,
cooking.
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Frank Bowler |
Frank was born in Stoke-On-Trent ,
but grew up in Argyll in Scotland . He graduated from the
University of St Andrews in 2006 with an MChem in Medicinal
Chemistry, spending the penultimate year of his degree on
an industrial placement with Pfizer at Sandwich in Kent .
In his final year degree project, he greatly enjoyed working
for Prof Paul Kamer on DNA based transition metal catalyst
assemblies. After graduation Frank spent a short spell working
for Prof Peter Sadler on photoactivated platinum anticancer
complexes, before transferring to the Bradley group to begin
his PhD in June 2007. His research is focused on the use of
peptide nucleic acid (PNA) for DNA sequencing and SNP analysis.
In his free time, Frank enjoys cross-country running (occasionally!),
and travelling and going out to the cinema and theatre with
his wife, Jennifer.
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Geraldine Escher |
Geraldine was born in Belfort,
north-east of France, in 1984. After a HND in Organic Chemistry,
at the University of Besancon (France), she graduated with
a five-year University degree "Master Recherche"
in Biomolecular Chemistry, at the University of Montpellier
II. During her studies, she had the opportunity to do 5 internships
(4 in France:COBS, LAPP, CRBA and UMIB and 1 in Canada : College
de l'Outaouais).She joined the Bradley group in September
2007 and she is currently working on the synthesis of peptoid
carrier for cellular delivery of biologically active molecules.
Out of work Geraldine enjoys travelling (11 countries), reading,
walking, skiing (when their is some snow) and of course spending
a lot of time with her friends (restaurant, cinema, pub,...)
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Gianluca Sechi
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Gianluca was born in
Alghero, a city in the north of Sardinia (Italy). He graduated
in "Universita degli Studi di Sassari" , in July
2003. In January 2004, he joined Prof. M. Bradley's group.
His research project is focused on develop new solid supported
oxidants. Out of lab he enjoys any activity that includes
good wine & good food with his friends.
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Graham Henderson
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Graham graduated from the University
of Glasgow with an MSci in Chemistry in June 2005, where he
worked on anti-cancer drug research with Prof. David Robins
and the Beatson Oncology Laboratories. He joined the Bradley
Group in August 2006 to work on peptide based microarrays
for cell binding and cell marker identification. In his spare
time Graham enjoys socialising, the cinema and going to the
gym.
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Jose Pedrosa
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Jose was born in Andujar(
Jaen) (South of Spain). He has a degree in Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering at the University of Granada ( Spain). He was
working at physical-chemical parameters of fragrances and
essential oils, as well as the formulations of soaps and chromatography
analysis of fatty acid of soaps , during six months at DGF-Universal
Fragrances Company. During that time he was studying a Msc
in water and environmental management.-. Then he came to UK
(2000) and earned a MSc in Chemical Research and Process in
Liverpool University, before working during 6 months in the
Stanley group in the project (asymmetric epoxidation of alpha-betha
unsaturated derivatives using polyleucine). Later he joined
to the Bradley group working in the PhD of highthrough put
screening of inkjet materials He enjoys the music, reading,
food and a good wine.
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Juan Manuel Cardenas-Maestre |
Juanma was born and
grew up in Cartaya, a small village in Huelva . Huelva belongs
to Andalucia-the best part of Spain he says-.
He graduated in Pharmacy in 2006 from Granada University .
Afterwards he was working in Dr. Gomez Vidal’s group
in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Granada University
and from January 2007 he is working under the supervision
of Dr. Rosario Sanchez-Martin in the project named “Microspheres
for cellular sorting, manipulation, multiplexing and in situ
sensing”.
He is really happy here because he thinks that he is
working in one of the best research groups in UK and this
will be very good experience for him.
He loves adventure sports like snowboarding, mountain biking
and surfing as well as going to spectacular live concerts
of good groups such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, Rolling
Stones...
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Lois Alexander
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Lois graduated from
Southampton University with a MChem in Chemistry with Medicinal
Chemistry in 2005. She moved to join Prof. Mark Bradley’s
group in Edinburgh in the same year working on investigating
the applications and cellular uptake pathway of functionalized
microspheres.
Out of work Lois enjoys socialising with friends, reading
and travelling.
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Luciano Galveia
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Luciano was born
in Almada , Portugal . He got is degree in Chemistry at the
Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in 2000. Afterwards
he obtained a MChem in Technological Organic Chemistry at
the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University
of Lisbon in 2003. During this time, he got the opportunity
to demonstrate at the Air Force Academy, as well as at the
University of Lisbon. He joined the Bradley group in February
of 2004 and is currently working on High Throughput screening
of metal catalysed reactions under microwave irradiation and
development of a solid-phase linker for palladium catalysed
reactions. He likes playing football, squash, listening to
music, going to gigs, and pigeon racing.
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Maria Lopalco
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Maria was born in Brindisi,
Italy. She graduated in July 2003 in Pharmaceutical Chemistry
& Technology at the Universita degli Studi di Siena. The
subject of her thesis was "Synthetic study for the preparation
of parallel arrays of imidazolidinones"; this work was
carried out under the supervision of Prof. M. Taddei. After
six-month training in a pharmacy, she joined the Bradley group
in February 2004. She is currently working on the development
of a new High Throughput Sequencing method on microarray chips.
In her free time, Maria enjoys discovering new beautiful places
in Scotland, going to the cinema, fencing and yoga.
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Mariona Valles Miret
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Mariona was born in a little village
near Barcelona, surrounded by wine and human towers, in Catalunya.
She studied Chemistry in Institute of Chemistry of Sarria where
she graduated in June 2006. One year later, she got a Master
in Biomedical Research in Pompeu Fabra University and joined
Mark Bradley’s group where she’s doing her PhD in
the field of microarrays.
She loves cooking and eating, reading and almost all sports.
She likes travelling around, being in contact with nature
and she enjoys being surrounded by good friends.
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M. Rahimi Yusop |
Rahimi was born and grew
up in small village surrounded by paddy fields near Parit
Buntar Perak, Malaysia. He graduated in Oleochemistry from
the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)–National University
of Malaysia in 2003. He was awarded a scholarship from Malaysian
Palm Oil Board to further his study at Advanced Oleochemical
Technology Division (AOTD) and obtained his M.Sc degree (palm-based
surfactants) in 2005 from the same University. He was appointed
as a lecturer in Oleochemistry Department at Faculty of Science
and Technology, UKM, Bangi. Thus, he was awarded a scholarship
from Malaysia government to pursue his further study as required
by the university. Due to the very strong support from Professor
Mark Bradley, he was allocated a training position funded
by School of Chemistry University of Edinburgh to undertake
PhD research in Bradley group started from February 2008.
His research area is in chemical biology and focused on Palladium
chemistry and its application both in chemistry and biology,
solid phase synthesis, flow and click chemistry. Here, he
lives happily in lovely-flat nearby the City of Edinburgh
with his beloved wife (Norly) and 2 years old son (Irfan Hadif).
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Phillip Milnes
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Phill was born in Torquay,
Southwest England . He acquired a MChem (Hons) from Bath University
in June 2003. As part of his undergraduate degree, he spent
one year working in the Bone Metabolism research department
at Novartis AG, Basel , Switzerland . In October 2003, he
joined Prof. M. Bradleys group and is currently undertaking
work pertaining to Rapid optimisation, screening and identification
of new Chiral separation media, in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.
In his spare time he enjoys travelling, socialising, as well
as playing and watching sport such as Football and Cricket.
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Salvatore Pernagallo
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Salvatore
Pernagallo was born in Catania (Italy) and lived happily in
Scordia, a citrus village located in Catania's lowlands where
his beloved parents still live. After High School he moved
to Catania to study Molecular Biology at the Homonym University.
During his degree he acquired his military service for the
"60° Battaglione Fanteria Col di Lana"
in Trapani (Italy). He got his degree in December 2004, the
subject of his thesis being "Genomics and Evolution
of the Apoptotic Machinery" under the supervision
of Prof. Michele Purrello and Prof. Alfredo Ferro in the Biomedical
Science Department.
After graduation, he won a position as a medical genetics
trainee in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Catania,
where he successfully has completed the first year of four.
In May 2006 Salvatore took a break from his studies in Catania
to join the Bradley Group at Edinburgh University as a PhD
student. He is currently working on high-throughput screening
of polymer supports for suspension cells and analysis of gene
expression profiles.
Outside the lab he is an international wrestling referee (Greco-Roman
and Free Stile) so has the opportunity to travel around Europe.
In his spare time he loves cooking Italian food…perhaps
because he loves eating it as well!!
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Songsak Planonth
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Song was born in 1980
in Chonburi, Thailand. In 2003, he graduated in Chemistry
from Mahidol University, Bangkok. In the final year of the
degree, he worked under the supervision of Prof. Somsak Ruchirawat.
While studying in the first year of his Master of Chemistry
degree, he was awarded a scholarship from The Royal Thai Government
to study abroad. He joined the Bradley group in May, 2005.
His research projects focus on the synthesis of a functionalized
fluorescent sensor and the synthesis of a library of lanthanide-binding
proteins. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball,
pool and sometimes football. Besides sports, he is also interested
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