Ramon Eritja: Química de Ácidos Nucleicos

Ramón Eritja

Jefe de Grupo
Professor (IQAC-CSIC)
Tel Oficina: +34 93 40 39942
Tel Lab: +34 93 403 99 42
correo-e: ramon.eritjairbbarcelona.org

Chemist (University of Barcelona, 1977) and Pharmacist (University of Barcelona, 1982).

Ph.D in Chemistry (University of Barcelona, 1983). His postdoctoral research was in Dr. Itakura’s Lab (Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope, CA, USA) between 1984-1988 and in Dr. Caruthers’s Lab (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, 1988-1989.) Postdoctoral fellow, University of Barcelona, 1989-1990. Group Leader at CSIC, Barcelona, 1990-1994. Group Leader and responsible of DNA synthesis facility at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany, 1994-1999. Research Professor at IBMB-CSIC leading the Nucleic Acid Chemistry Group since 1999. Member of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine since December 2004.

His main area of expertise on oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis especially on the methodological aspects of solid-phase synthesis (monomer synthesis, preparation of solid supports, synthesis and purification). Experience in most areas related to the synthesis and properties of oligonucleotide derivatives including non-natural bases, phosphate and backbone modifications, oligonucleotide-peptide conjugates and RNA derivatives; Publications: 196, Citations at Science Citation Index: 3200. Ph. D. Thesis supervised: 11. Master or equivalent supervised: 13