Edgar Pérez-Herrero
University of Salamanca, Spain
Biography
Edgar Pérez Herrero is an Assistant Proffesor and Researcher at the University of Salamanca, focusing on thermal insulation by means of encapsulated phase change materials, and development of new targeted magnetic molecularly imprinted nanomedicines to improve the treatment of Multiple Myeloma. He got his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Salamanca with extraordinary award for PhD Thesis. He was a visiting scientist in the University of Texas at Austin (EEUU), participating in original research on protein imprinting, with. Nicholas A Peppas, being co-author of a granted American patent. He has worked as Postdoctoral Researcher in the Principe Felipe Research Centre in Valencia with M J Vicent, specializing in conjugation processes and polymer therapeutics, and in the Pharmaceutical Technology Department at the University of Santiago de Compostela with M J Alonso, specializing in nanoparticle systems to oral peptide delivery
Abstract
Abstract : Drug nanocarriers as targeted therapies in cancer, the new chemotherapy