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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

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

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: Eloy Espín Basany
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 97580
Reference: PI050304
Duration: 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2008

Oncologia Molecular i Envelliment

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: Diego Arango Corro, Alberto Plaja Rustein, Teresa Vendrell Bayona, Manuel Armengol Carrasco, Eloy Espín Basany
Funding agency: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Funding: 36600
Reference: 2005SGR 00076
Duration: 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2008

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

IP: Simon Schwartz Navarro
Collaborators: Diego Arango Corro, 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

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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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