Dr. Marta Piquero
Department of Chemistry
University of Basel
St. Johanns-Ring 19
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland
Lab: 306
phone: +41 (0)61 207 09 68
email: marta.piqueromarti@clutterunibas.ch
Background
Marta obtained her Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 2014. In 2015 she got her master´s degree in drug discovery from the same university and this same year she joined the BIOHET (Heterocycles of Biological and Therapeutic Interest) research group where she did her Master's thesis. Subsequently she joined the group for her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Jose Carlos Menéndez and Pilar Lopez-Alvarado. During this period, she carried out a predoctoral stay in the group of Professor Dario Neri at ETH (Zürich, Switzerland). In 2020 she successfully completed her PhD with summa cum laude.
Research Experience
- Current: Postdoctoral research assistant
- 2016-2020: PhD student in the area of Medicinal Chemistry developing multitarget theranostic compounds against proteinopathies and infectious diseases.
- 2014-2015: Master thesis at the Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry department, School of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid synthesizing hybrid pyrrole-isoniazid structures as potential antitubercular agents.
- 2013: 6 month internship at the Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry department, School of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid.
Education
Master degree in Drug Discovery: Complutense University of Madrid, University of Alcalá de Henares and San Pablo CEU University.
Supervisor: Prof. Jose Carlos Menéndez and Mercedes Villacampa.
Project: Hybrid pyrrole-isoniazid structures as potential antitubercular agents: synthesis and characterization of new molecular scaffolds design to simultaneously inhibit different targets involved in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis infection.
Bachelor degree in Pharmacy: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Bibliography
Structure-activity relationships and mechanistic studies of novel mitochondria-targeted, leishmanicidal derivatives of the 4-aminostyrylquinoline scaffold
Matteo Staderini*, Marta Piquero*, María Ángeles Abengózar, Montserrat Nachér-Vázquez, Giulia Romanelli, Pilar López-Alvarado, Luis Rivas, Maria Laura Bolognesi, J. Carlos Menéndez
J. Med. Chem, 2019, 171, 38-53. doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.03.007
*These authors contributed equally to this work.
Nrf2 regulation processes as a source of potential drug targets against neurodegenerative diseases
Ángel Cores, Marta Piquero, Mercedes Villacampa, Rafael León, J. Carlos Menéndez
Biomol.2020, 10, 904. doi:10.3390/biom10060904