Prof. Jesús Jiménez-Barbero
Principal Investigator
Organisation/Institute: CIC bioGUNE (Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences)
Email: jjbarbero@cicbiogune.es
Supervisor of ESR 5
Jesús Jiménez-Barbero is Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director of CIC bioGUNE since November 2014.
He has served as President of the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain (RSEQ) from January 2012 to January 2018 and was Secretary General of the same Institution between 2004 and 2011.
He has also served as Head of the Chemistry Panel of the National Plan for Research of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2009-2018), and as the representative of Spain in the CMST committee of EU-COST (2012-14).
His scientific interests focus on Chemical Biology, especially on discovering molecular recognition mechanisms of carbohydrates with biomedical relevance. His major contributions to the field include the unravelling of the molecular basis of recognition of different ligands by biological receptors in solution, using a multidisciplinary approach.
His research employs organic synthesis, protein biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, molecular modelling and NMR, using a wide network of collaborations worldwide.
Recent advances employ paramagnetic metals (lanthanides) and NMR-active molecular probes (19F NMR) to scrutinize molecular recognition both in vitro and in-cell. The proposal focused on these last avenues has received the ERC Advanced Grant (2018).