Lourdes Gude

Dr. Lourdes Gude obtained her BSc in Chemistry with Honors at Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. As a graduate fellow, funded by Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid, her Ph.D. research work involved the synthesis and study of DNA intercalants and their interaction and photocleavage activity in the presence of metals (Advisors: Assoc. Professors Antonio Lorente and María José Fernández). During this period, she visited Prof. Kathryn B. Grant laboratory in USA (Georgia State University-Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, two short-stays, 7 months total) and Prof. Modesto Orozco laboratory in Spain (Univ. de Barcelona-Scientific Park, 2 months), with travel grants from UAH and CAM. Later on, Dr. Gude undertook postdoctoral training (4 years) in the field of Chemical Biology in Prof. Gregory L. Verdine laboratory, at Harvard University, USA. Her stay abroad was partially funded by a postdoctoral MEC/Fulbright fellowship. She returned to Spain as an Assistant Professor at Universidad de Alcalá, and as a recipient of a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant (FP7-European Commission). She is Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry since 2018. She is currenty the coordinator of the Chemistry PhD Program. Along with Prof. Eva Royo, she coordinates the DISCOBAC group, belonging to IQAR and IDISCAM Research Institutes. Her interests lie in the fields of Bioorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology. In particular, she focuses on the development of structurally complex multivalent drugs derived from the conjugation of organic and/or metallo-organic molecules with either carbohydrates, steroid or oligonucleotides as potential non-conventional antitumor agents. https://www.discobac.org/