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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

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: Manuel Armengol Carrasco, Eloy Espín Basany
Funding agency: Oncnosis Pharma, AIE
Funding: 249000
Reference: CENIT/02/2006
Duration: 01/04/2006 - 31/12/2009

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: 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

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