Medicinal Chemistry for Unmet Medical Needs

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Chemistry

Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, UB

Carmen Escolano Mirón
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9117-8239
Tel +34 934024540

https://www.ub.edu/medicinalchemistrypharmacology/research-group/dr-carmen-escolano/

Principal investigator: • Carmen Escolano Mirón   

PhD student: • Ainoa Sánchez Arferlis

Postdoctoral contract: Carla Barbaracci

Current
Research

Our research group, based in the Unit of Medicinal Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, is well equipped for all aspects of Medicinal Chemistry. Our team has a multidisciplinary character and is aimed to face projects within chemistry and biology. We are involved in the design and synthesis of organic entities to be used as pharmacological tools for the discovery of molecular mechanisms of action. We are also developing new chemical entities that face health problems with high social impact in unmet medical needs such as cancer (glioblastoma) and neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer Disease, AD).

Our projects are multidisciplinary an involve different institutions and excellent professionals.

Additionally, we regularly collaborate with different academic groups that requests new chemical entities to support/develop their projects. Finally, we have a long tradition providing a wide range of services to different pharmaceutical companies and biotechs, e.g. synthesis of new products; identification, isolation and synthesis of impurities, etc.

 

Selected
Publications

Bagán, A.; Abás, S.; Palà-Pujades, J.; Irisarri, A.; Griñán-Ferré, C.; Pallàs, M.; Muneta-Arrate, I.; Muguruza, C.; Callado, L. F.; Pérez, B.; Molins, E.; Morales-García, J. A.; Escolano, C. Exploring the reactivity of bicyclic α-iminophosphonates to access new imidazoline I2 receptor ligands. Bioorganic Chemistry, 2024142, 106935.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioorg.2023.106935

Bagán, A.; Rodriguez-Arévalo, S.; Taboada-Jara, T.; Griñán-Ferré, C.; Pallàs, M.; Brocos-Mosquera, I.; Callado, L. F.; Morales-García, J. A.; Pérez, B.; Diaz, C.; Fernández-Godino, R.; Genilloud, O.; Beljkas, M.; Oljacic, S.; Nikolic, K.; Escolano, C. Preclinical Evaluation of an Imidazole-Linked Heterocycle for Alzheimer’s Disease, Pharmaceutics 202315, 2381. Pharmaceutics | Free Full-Text | Preclinical Evaluation of an Imidazole-Linked Heterocycle for Alzheimer’s Disease (mdpi.com)

Bagán, A.; Morales-García, J. A.; Griñán-Ferré, C.; Díaz, C.; Pérez del Palacio, J.; Ramos, M. C.; Vicente, F.; Pérez, B.; Brea, J.; Brea, J.; Loza, M. I.; Pallàs, M.; Escolano, C. Insights into the pharmacokinetics and in vitro cell-based studies of the imidazoline I2 receptor ligands B06. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 202223, 5408.  IJMS | Free Full-Text | Insights into the Pharmacokinetics and In Vitro Cell-Based Studies of the Imidazoline I2 Receptor Ligand B06 (mdpi.com)

Rodriguez-Arévalo, S.; Bagán, A.; Griñán-Ferré, C.; Vasilopoulou, F.; Pallàs, M.; Brocos-Mosquera, I.; Callado, L.F.; Loza, M.I.; Martínez, A.L.; Brea, J.; Pérez, B.; Molins, E. De Jonghe, S.; Daelemans, D.; Radan, M.; Djikic, T.; Nikolic, K.; Hernández-Hernández, E.; García-Fuster, M. J.; García-Sevilla, J. A.; Escolano, C. Benzofuranyl-2-imidazoles as Imidazoline I2 Receptor Ligands for Alzheimer’s Disease. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2021222, 113540. Benzofuranyl-2-imidazoles as imidazoline I2 receptor ligands for Alzheimer’s disease (sciencedirectassets.com)

Abás, S.; Rodríguez-Arévalo, S.; Bagán, A.; Griñán-Ferré, C.; Vasilopoulou, F.; Brocos-Mosquera, I.; Muguruza, C.; Pérez, B.; Molins, E.; Luque, F.J.; et al. Bicyclic a-iminophosphonates as High Affinity Imidazoline I2 Receptor Ligands for Alzheimer’s Disease. J. Med. Chem. 20207, 3610–3633. Bicyclic α-Iminophosphonates as High Affinity Imidazoline I2 Receptor Ligands for Alzheimers Disease PubMed (nih.gov)

Aragó, M.; Moreno-Felici, J.; Abás, S.; Rodríguez-Arévalo, S.; Hyroššová, P.; Figuras, A.; Viñals, F.; Pérez, B.; Loza, M. I.; Brea, J.; Latorrre, P.; Carrodeguas, A.; García-Rovés, P. M.; Galdeano, C.; Ginex, T.; Luque, F. J.; Escolano, C.; Perales, J. C. Pharmacology and preclinical validation of a novel anticancer compound targeting PEPCK-M. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 2020121, 109601. Pharmacology and preclinical validation of a novel anticancer compound targeting PEPCK-M – ScienceDirect

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