Associate Area Head Chemistry
Fundacion MEDINA, Spain
José R. Tormo finished his Ph.D studies in the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Valencia in 2000. He has more than 25 years of R&D experience in academia and international (Merck Sharp & Dohme) and national (VLT BioPharma) pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, with strong professional and academic knowledge in biology, biochemistry, natural products chemistry, metabolomics, pharmacology, screening and automation. He presents international experience in the design and implementation of global Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Screening Laboratories including the design, development and supervision of Drug Discovery Screening campaigns, including automated chemical extraction techniques for microbial fermentations, compound management of synthetics and natural products, isolation and structural elucidation of natural products, structure-activity-relationship (SAR), HTS in-vitro and in-vivo screenings, tumor cell lines growth inhibition, in-vitro P450 induction evaluation of culture cell lines and biochemical evaluation of mechanism of action of bioactive agents.