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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.

Currently acting as Strategy director of biobanking and bioresources 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 40, with more that 115 high impact publications and 17 transferred patents. 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.

Projects

Integrated approach for the improved microbial production of high quality therapeutic enzymes (IMAPPROT)

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: Diego Arango Corro, Ibane Abasolo Olaortua
Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-MICINN
Funding: 164000
Reference: EUI2008-03741
Duration: 01/03/2009 - 30/06/2012

Ministerio de Ciencia

Nuevos transductores para KRAS y BRAF en cáncer colorectal con inestabilidad de microsatélites esporádico y hereditario: diferencias de activación según el entorno molecular tumoral

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 54000
Reference: FI07/00002
Duration: 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011

Validación Funcional de dianas terapéuticas y nuevas nanomedicinas en modelos in vitro e in vivo de cáncer colorectal

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Fundació Institut de Recerca HUVH
Funding: 13000
Reference: PRED/IR-HUVH/13/2007
Duration: 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011

Investigación y desarrollo de productos y tecnologías de diagnóstico-pronóstico y aplicaciones terapéuticas en la enfermedad neoplásica.

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: Diego Arango Corro, Manuel Armengol Carrasco, Eloy Espín Basany
Funding agency: Oncnosis Pharma, AIE
Funding: 249000
Reference: CENIT/02/2006
Duration: 01/04/2006 - 31/12/2009

Related news

The European project, in which Vall d'Hebron participates, will favor personalized diagnosis and innovative therapeutic strategies in patients with the disease.

In total, different projects of six research groups will be promoted, focusing on precision medicine and advanced therapies.

During the last year, the collaboration between Vall d’Hebron and ZeClinics has found three nanobody candidates with potent anticancer properties in zebrafish model.

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