Concepción González-Bello
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Biography
Concepción González-Bello has obtained her PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, Spain) in 1994. She did two Pre-doctoral stays at the University of Gent (Belgium) with professor vandewalle and at the Scripps Research Institute (USA) with professor Nicolaou. After a Post-doctoral stay at the University of Cambridge (UK) with professor Abell, she joined USC as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 2003 and obtained the Spanish habilitation to Full professor in 2011. She joined the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS) as a group leader in 2011. She is the author of about 80 papers and several book chapters and an Academic Editor of Plos One. Her main research interest is to develop updated therapies targeting infectious diseases, in particular, drugs with new mechanisms of action to combat the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.