Jesús Jiménez Barbero (born 1960, in
Madrid
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) is a Spanish scientist who has contributed to the advance of glycoscience by unraveling the
conformational properties of
carbohydrate
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s and analogues and the molecular basis of their interactions with proteins, using a multidisciplinary approach that employs
carbohydrate synthesis,
molecular biology
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,
molecular modelling
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and
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are perturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with a ...
(NMR) spectroscopy.
Academic career
He studied
chemistry at the
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous Univers ...
where he obtained his PhD in 1987. He continued post-doctoral research at
National Institute for Medical Research
The National Institute for Medical Research (commonly abbreviated to NIMR), was a medical research institute based in Mill Hill, on the outskirts of north London, England. It was funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC);
In 2016, the NIMR b ...
at
Mill Hill
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. From 1990 to 1992, he was visiting scientist at
Carnegie Mellon University (
Pittsburgh
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, USA).
He returned to Spain, rising to Senior Research Scientist of CSIC at the
Institute of Organic Chemistry (1996) and Research Professor of CSIC at the Centre for Biological Research (CIB-CSIC) (2002) where he was the head of the Chemical and Physical Biology Department. He moved to CIC bioGUNE at Bilbao in 2014, as Ikerbasque Professor and Scientific Director. He currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant (RecglycanNMR)
Positions
* Secretary General of Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain between 2004 and 2012.
* President of RSEQ between 2012 and 2018.
* Member of the editorial boards of:
** Chem. Eur. J. (2001-)
** Carbohydr. Res.(2001-)
** J. Carbohydr. Chem. (2002-)
** Org. Biomol. Chem. (2007–2008)
** Glycoconj. J.(2008-)
** Eur. J. Org. Chem. (2009-2016)
** ChemBioChem (2011-)
** ChemMedChem (2013-)
** Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem (2013-2016)
** ACS Chem Biol (2016-)
** ACS Omega (2017-)
* Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2017)
* ChemPubSoc Fellow (2015)
* Head of the Basic Chemistry (BQU) Programme of the National Plan for Research of Spain between 2008 and 2018.
Awards
* In 2003 Janssen-Cilag Prize in Organic Chemistry of RSEQ
* In 2008 Prize of the NMR group of RSEQ.
* In 2010 Roy L. Whistler International Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry
* In 2017 Gamboa Winkler Award from the Hungarian Chemical Society
* In 2018 Gold Medal of RSEQ
Publications
Publications*
* He is co-author of more than 500 publications in international journals
* He has delivered more than 250 lectures at symposia and institutions
* He has tutored more than 25 PhD Theses and supervised more than 30 postdoctoral associates
References
External links
CIBRSEQCIC bioGUNE
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1960 births
Spanish chemists
Living people