Laura Lechuga, Scientific Director of the Unit 4 of NANBIOSIS in the Spanish Selection of Science.
The selection of the best Spanish researchers in 2016 is an initiative of the magazine QUO to disseminate the work of scientists. The jury formed by eight eminent scientists (Amils, Ainhoa Goni, Emilio Lora-Tamayo, Vladimir de Semir, Fernando Peláez, Antonio Calvo, Pilar López and Manuel Toharia, has chosen the twelve scientists of international prestige who will form the Spanish National Science 2016:
– Pedro Cavadas, plastic surgeon specializing in transplants
– Mariano Barbacid, a biochemist at the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
– Susana Marcos, director of the Institute of Optics ‘Daza Valdes’ CSIC
– Alberto Ruiz Jimeno, founder of the high energies of IFCA group
– Laura M. Lechuga, research professor at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and leader of the research CIBER-BBN group Nanobiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications
– Francisco J. Martinez Mojica, a researcher at the University of Alicante and scientific development of CRISPR
– Jose Manuel Galan, Egyptologist and promoter of the project Djehuty
– Juan José Gómez Cadenas, IFIC researcher and director of the experiment Next
– Carmen Martinez, director of Viticulture Group on Biological Mission of CSIC in Galicia
– Mariano Esteban, President of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy
– Mara Dierssen, researcher at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona
– Miguel Delibes de Castro, a researcher at the Biological Station of Doñana
Laura Lechuga develops innovative devices based on nanotechnology for diagnosis of Several pathologies. In her researches she use the unit 4 of NANBIOSIS of Biodeposition and Biodetection, a system suitable for the functionalization of biosensors With any kind of biomolecule, nanoparticles, graphene or other nanostructures, for surface patterning for cell culture, or for the preparation of micro / nanoarrays, Among other applications, which also harbours to Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) service.
