Javier Rodriguez Balboa

- Managing several projects ranging from Infectious diseases, allergy to oncology - Establishment of a peptide synthesis pipeline - Synthesis and design of complex peptides ( long (>50 AA), cyclic, bicyclic, branched, PTMs, UAA...) - Synthesis of linkers - Selective protein modification and conjugation - Coordination of CROs and providers - Patent writing - Supervision of students and colleagues - Involved in SOP and QA implementation - Attending international conferences - Scientific writing

- Automation strategies of high-throughput peptide synthesis - UPLC methods for fast and robust analysis of peptide libraries - Peptide modifications (early/late stage) - Screening of several linkers and solid supports - Evaluation of reaction kinetics - Scientific writing

Project: Study of the Internal Interactome of PDZ domain's and hit development (European Union’s H2020 Framework Programme, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions) - Protein expression and point mutagenesis and labelling - Peptide synthesis ( manual/ automated/ high-throughput) - Evaluation of multiple cyclic peptide strategies - Peptide modifications - SPOT cyclic/linear peptide arrays to explore protein-protein interactions and hit optimization - Binding assays (ITC, FP, ELISA)

Scientific support to the LC sales department such as: -Review/Management of scientific materials - Client contact and support -Event management. - Management of CRM/SAP database (updating and new clients)

Design and synthesis of organic products (solid and conventional synthesis) and its purification using a HPLC. Product characterization by its molecular weight (MALDI-TOFF and UPLC-MS) and purity evaluation. Projects: Peptide synthesis and Alanine scanning of a GB virus C peptide, Design and setting a peptide microarray to identify biomarkers for human diseases. Transfer Immunoenzymatic ELISA type assays to microarrays based assays

Responsible of evaluating several catalyst in different polymer thermal decomposition reactions. Purify and separate thermal decomposition products and posterior purification, characterization and purity graduation using HPLC and GC-MS. HPLC troubleshooting and calibration. BPL environment.

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Biochemistry and Biotechnology.

Analytical and control procedures in the pharma industry. Drug molecule screening.

Analytical and organic chemistry