Auteur: Maria J. Vicent

Manuel Monleón Pradas is Professor at the Technical University of Valencia, Spain, where he founded and headed the Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (1999-2009). He was Head of the Biomaterials Unit at the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (Valencia, Spain), and has been visiting professor at the University of Paris-XI. He has authored over 160 papers in the fields of polymer science and biomaterials. María J. Vicent is Head of the Polymer Therapeutics Laboratory at Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (Valencia, Spain). She has expertise in several aspects of polymer therapeutics field, from synthesis of nanopharmaceutics to their biological evaluation in different cell and in vivo models. Dr. Vicent has coauthored over 70 papers and 7 patents in the field. Furthermore, in 2012, she cofounded a spin-off company named Polypeptide Therapeutic Solutions SL, Spain, based on a family patent from her own group.