Jesús Jiménez Barbero
Jesús Jiménez Barbero (born 1960, in Madrid) is a Spanish scientist who has contributed to the advance of glycoscience by unraveling the conformational properties of carbohydrates and analogues and the molecular basis of their interactions with proteins, using a multidisciplinary approach that employs carbohydrate synthesis, molecular biology, molecular modelling and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
Academic career
He studied chemistry at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid where he obtained his PhD in 1987. He continued post-doctoral research at National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill. From 1990 to 1992, he was visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA). He returned to Spain, rising to Senior Research Scientist of CSIC at the Institute of Organic Chemistry (1996) and Research Professor of CSIC at the Centre for Biological Research (CIB-CSIC) (2002) where he heads the Chemical and Physical Biology Department.
Positions
- Secretary General of Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain since 2004.
President of RSEQ since 2012
- Member of the editorial boards of:
- Chem. Eur. J. (2001-)
- Carbohydr. Res.(2001-)
- J. Carbohydr. Chem. (2002-)
- Org. Biomol. Chem. (2007–2008)
- Glycoconj. J.(2008-)
- Eur. J. Org. Chem. (2009-)
ChemBioChem (2011-) ChemMedChem (2013-) Adv Carbohydr Chem Biochem (2013-)
- Current Responsible (Gestor) of the Basic Chemistry (BQU) Programme of the National Plan for Research of Spain.
Awards
- In 2003 Janssen-Cilag Prize in Organic Chemistry of RSEQ
- In 2008 Prize of the NMR group of RSEQ.
- In 2010 Roy L. Whistler International Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry
Publications
- He is co-author of more than 400 publications in international journals
- He has delivered more than 200"lectures at symposia and institutions
- He has tutored 17'PhD Theses.
References
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=jimenez-barbero+j