Speakers
Plenary Lectures (PL)
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Dr. Andrew Kellett Dublin City University, IE |
Andrew Kellett is Professor of Inorganic and Medicinal Chemistry in the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University, Ireland. His group are based at the Nano Research Facility (NRF) and focus on artificial gene editing, metallodrug discovery, and therapeutic nucleic acids. He is a back-to-back coordinator of the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) ClickGene and NATURE-ETN. His lab is supported by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the Irish Research Council (IRC), and the SFI funded centres for Pharmaceuticals (SSPC) and Medical Devices (CÚRAM). He is a graduate of Maynooth University (B.Sc.) and Technological University Dublin (PhD), was appointed as the A.F. Graves Fellow at the Focas Research Institute and thereafter joined the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University. In 2022 he was named the SSPC's 'Investigator of the Year' and recently received a prestigious Irish Research Council (IRC) Laureate Consolidator Award.
Group: https://andrewkellettgroup.com X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrew_kellett |
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Dr. Ramon Vilar Imperial College London, UK |
Ramon Vilar is a Professor of Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry and Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London. He was previously Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology (2019-23) and Director of Research in the Chemistry Department (2015 to 2023) in the same institution. His research focuses on the development of novel tools and technologies to interrogate biological systems spanning several areas such as medicinal inorganic chemistry, chemical biology, molecular recognition and molecular imaging. Some of the areas of interest include the role that unusual nucleic acids' structures (e.g. G-quadruplexes and triplexes) have in defining their biological function; the biological role metal ions play in living systems; the development of metal complexes as potential anticancer and antibacterial drugs. The group also has an interest in the development of molecular tools for the detection and removal of environmentally harmful species (such as arsenic, cyanide and lead) in water. Group: Vilar Research Group | Research groups | Imperial College London X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/vilar_group |
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