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Simon Schwartz Navarro

Senior scientist and advisor with specific interest in Nanomedicine and Advanced Therapies applied to unmet clinical needs. I am also acting as strategy coordinator to facilitate programs and initiatives that foster innovation in new treatments and diagnostic tools.

Institutions of which they are part

Main researcher
Clinical Biochemistry, Drug Delivery & Therapy (CB-DDT)
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Cap de Secció
Bioquímica
Cross-departmental services

Simon Schwartz Navarro

Institutions of which they are part

Main researcher
Clinical Biochemistry, Drug Delivery & Therapy (CB-DDT)
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Cap de Secció
Bioquímica
Cross-departmental services

Senior scientist and advisor with specific interest in Nanomedicine and Advanced Therapies applied to unmet clinical needs. I am also acting as strategy coordinator to facilitate programs and initiatives that foster innovation in new treatments and diagnostic tools.

Senior research of the clinical biochemistry - drug delivery and therapy group at VHIR and Strategy director of biobanking and biomodels at Vall d'hebron Campus. President of the European Society of Nanomedicine and Executive Board member of the International Society of Nanomedicine. Former director general of the Blood and Tissue Banc of Catalonia. Former director of CIBBIM-Nanomedicine. Former scientific associate director of CIBER-BBN and coordinator of technology transfer. Former director assistance of translational research at VHIR. H-index of 48, with more that 120 high impact publications, 19 transferred patents and several EU granted projects. Co-founder of 3 biotech companies (i.e, Bsure Medical ltd). Science Advisor of the European Nanomedicine Characterization Laboratory (EU-NCL). Member of the editorial Board of Precision Nanomedicine, J. Nanotechnology and of J. of Nanotheranostics. Former editorial Board member of Eur. J. Nanomedicine and Nanomedicine-NBM. Exper member of the nanomedicine group at EMA.

Projects

Papel funcional de los receptores con actividad quinasa EPH y sus ligandos en el cáncer colorectal

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: Miriam Izquierdo Sans
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 153010.09
Reference: MS05/00256
Duration: 01/03/2006 - 28/02/2012

Detección de nuevos genes de respuesta a radiaciones ionizantes y quimioterápicos mediante oligo chip-microarrays y ensayos de sensibilidad tumoral al tratamiento mediante inhibición por siRNA

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Fundació Institut de Recerca HUVH
Funding: 13200
Reference: PRED/IR-HUVH/17/2003
Duration: 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2007

Inestabilitat genòmica i mitocondrial en càncer

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: Eloy Espín Basany
Funding agency: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Funding: 8200
Reference: 2003 XT 00096
Duration: 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2005

Vías moleculares de respuesta genotóxica al tratamiento quimio- y radioterápico tumoral. Detección de nuevos implicados.

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 1393.2
Reference: BF03/00595
Duration: 01/01/2004 - 30/11/2007

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