Desarrollo y evaluación de análogos de C75 como potenciales fármacos contra la obesidad y el cáncer 

    Gómez García, Roberto (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

    [spa] La presente Tesis de carácter multidisciplinar se centra en el diseño y síntesis de nuevos derivados de C75 como potenciales agentes antitumorales e inhibidores de la ingesta para el desarrollo de nuevos fármacos ...

    Design and Synthesis of Bifunctional Compounds for Targeted Protein Degradation and Phosphorylation 

    Loren Parrondo, Guillem (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)

    [eng] In this doctoral thesis, the design and synthesis of bifunctional molecules that induce the degradation of a target protein in cells are described. The synthesis of molecules capable of inducing the phosphorylation ...

    Design of peptides able to modulate Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in mutated p53 

    Nicolini, Federica (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)

    [eng] Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a crucial role in the homeostasis of the cells; therefore, they are important therapeutic targets. Typically, the goal in targeting PPIs is to impede them. On the contrary, ...

    Development and applications of photoswitchable muscarinic ligands 

    Riefolo, Fabio (Date of defense: 2020-07-29)

    Modern medical treatments are largely based on the ability of pharmacological drugs to interact with a molecular target in the human body (e.g., receptors) in order to evoke a physiological response. Such targets are ...

    First principles evaluation of structure and properties of multifunctional materials 

    Santiago Piera, Raul (Date of defense: 2024-02-16)

    [eng] Organic chemistry is recognized for its ability to arrange a limited set of atoms in numerous ways, a quality that is crucial in molecular magnetism. This branch benefits from the adaptability of organic chemistry ...

    Indole arylation in tryptophan residues: development of new chemical methodologies, synthetic studies and biological evaluation of modified peptides 

    Mendive Tapia, Lorena (Date of defense: 2017-02-17)

    In the present thesis we have investigated the development of new methodologies for the selective and straightforward chemical modification of Trp amino acid either alone or in peptides. In the first chapter, we have ...

    Non-glycosidic analogues of alpha-galactosylceramide: Design, synthesis and biological activity 

    Borràs Tudurí, Roser (Date of defense: 2018-07-06)

    The Immune System (IS) is a complex collection of tissues, organs, cells and molecules to defense the body against threatens. IS is organized into two lines of defense: innate immunity which acts in a non-specific manner ...

    Photoswitchable allosteric ligands to modulate metabotropic glutamate receptors 

    Panarello, Silvia (Date of defense: 2021-12-15)

    Photopharmacology has the main purpose to allow the control of protein activity with light. The most exploited strategy used to achieve this objective is the freely diffusible photopharmacology and it is based in the use ...

    Structural characterization of amyloid beta oligomers with functional links associated to Alzheimer's disease 

    Puig Gomà-Camps, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-06-20)

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. It was first described in 1906 by Alois Alzheimer. Later on, in 1984 George Glenner and Colin Masters isolated the amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide from a human brain ...

    Studies toward the synthesis of marine natural products Phormidolides B-D 

    Gil Escolano, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)

    Marine natural products (MNPs) are, undoubtedly, highly valuable starting points for drug-development programs. Generally, MNPs show a well-defined spatial orientation that have evolved for thousands of years to interact ...

    Syntheses of (S)-Bicalutamide and Somatostatin analogs, and development of Green procedures for Peptide synthesis 

    Matarín Morales, Joan Antoni (Date of defense: 2021-12-15)

    Peptides are defined as compounds that contain between two and fifty amino acids connected together by amide bonds. Inside our body, peptides are natural biological messengers that play critical roles in human physiology ...

    Synthesis of Sonic Hedgehog protein and development of peptide binders using phage display libraries 

    Palà Pujadas, Judith (Date of defense: 2018-03-12)

    Chemical protein synthesis has become a potent tool for the synthesis of proteins, especially those which are not easily accessed by DNA recombinant methods, such as proteins with posttranslational modifications. The key ...

    Synthesis, Biological Evaluation and Insights into the Mode of Action of Quinoxaline Containing Peptides 

    Zamudio Vázquez, Rubí (Date of defense: 2014-02-14)

    Triostins are members of the quinoxaline antibiotic family, together with the "prototypical bisintercalator" echinomycin. These molecules display interesting antitumour activities as they inhibit transcription through ...

    Targeting the disordered N-terminal domain of androgen receptor. Novel inhibitors tackling biomolecular condensation to treat late stage prostate cancer 

    Frigolé Vivas, Marta (Date of defense: 2020-09-23)

    [eng] Drug discovery is the process by which new drugs are found and developed into the market. Given the scope of this thesis, the term “drug” will refer to small molecules and the term “target” to proteins, otherwise ...

    Towards the validation of a druggable amyloid-beta oligomer as a target for Alzheimer´s disease = Cap a la validació d’un oligomer de beta-amiloide com a diana en la malaltia d’Alzheimer 

    Ninot Pedrosa, Martí (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)

    Amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ) is strongly linked to the aetiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Aβ is the main component of the amyloid plaques found in the brain of AD patients, however, Aβ is also present in the brain of ...