Medicinal and Bioinorganic Chemistry Research Group Grupo de Investigación “Química Médica y Bio-inorgánica” (QMEDBIN) Instituto de Investigación y Doctorados Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Central de Chile CHILE Full professor and researcher at the Instituto de Investigación y Doctorados, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud at the Universidad Central de Chile (UCEN, Chile). He was professor and researcher at the University of Chile (Chile) and University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, Spain), wherein he continues as an associate researcher at the Faculty of Pharmacy (USC) in the field of Natural Products-Medicinal Chemistry against CNS diseases and experimental studies about drug delivery systems. From these research lines, there have been generated more than 180 scientific articles of high impact index in the field of the Chemistry, Pharmacy and Nanotechnology compiled in several journals. On the base of the excellent experimental results, and of direct application in the scope of the health, such results have been protected in more than 9 (European) protection patents and PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) that cover the scope of the applied nanomedicine in neuro-degenerative and parasitic diseases. At the present time, he is International Referee of Research Projects in the fields of Biomedicine, in Argentina and Chile (FONCYT and FONDECYT, respectively), and Spain for the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP). He is Editor / Editorial Board member of the following journals; Molecules, International Journal of Nanomedicine, Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology, Archives of Natural Biological Research, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity and Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry.

Inside the research activities carried out, two main research lines can be described; 1) Synthesis of compounds from natural sources or synthetic ways with pharmacological activity (neuro-degenerative dysfunctions and behavioral disorders as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases and depression-anxiety, respectively), and parasitic diseases (Malaria, Leishmania), and; 2) Synthesis of supramolecular system derived from natural/synthetic polymers for controlled release of drugs.