Dr. Horacio Pérez Sánchez (UCAM)

Dr. Horacio Pérez Sánchez is an enthusiastic researcher of the Catholic University of Murcia - UCAM (Spain). His bachelor in chemistry, finished in 2000 at the University of Murcia, was the starting point of his scientific career. For a period of 6 years, Dr. Pérez Sánchez worked in the Department of Chemical Physic (University of Murcia) and investigated the "Orientational Dynamics and Electric birefringence of semiflexible macromolecules" that was the title of his PhD Thesis. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked and collaborated with prestigious international institutions from Germany and Spain and was awarded with prestigious European grants, including the Marie Curie program. In 2013, Dr. Pérez-Sánchez became the principal investigator of the "Bioinformatics and High-Performance Computing" research group at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM). His research line is multidisciplinary and based on structural bioinformatics, high-performance computina as well as physical chemistry. This interesting multidisciplinary background was the main reason by which Dr. Giménez-Bastida contacted him to established a collaboration within the PolyBiota project. The recently published study "Physiologically relevant curcuminoids inhibit angiogenesis via VEGFR2 in human aortic endothelial cells" is the testament of a frutfill collaboration.