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María José Camarasa received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Madrid Complutense University. After a two-year post-doctoral stay at the Medicinal Chemistry Department of the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham (U.K.), she returned to the Medicinal Chemistry Institute (IQM-CSIC), where since 2002 is Research Professor (Full professor).

Science Management Positions:
* Head of the Chemotherapy Department (1991-1994) of the Instituto de Química Médica (IQM-CSIC).
* Vice-Director(1991-2001) of the Instituto de Química Médica (IQM-CSIC).
* Deputy Co-coordinator of the Chemistry Comission of the CSIC (2004-1011),
* Deputy Member of the Chemistry Area of the ANEP (National Evaluation and Foresight Agency) of Spain (2005-2010).

Other:
* President of the Spanish Society of Therapeutic Chemistry (SEQT) (2004-2007)
* Member of the executive board of the International Society of Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids (IS3NA) (since 2011-present)
* Member of the Editorial and/or Advisory Boards of: Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids (1998-), Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (2005-), ChemMedChem (2005-), Current HIV Research (2006-), Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (2013-), and Gest Editor for a Special Issue of Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (2004).
* Member by invitation of the panel of “programme of development of the publication” of Nature. (2009-2010).
* Member by invitation of the “panel reading survey” of Nature.

Prof. Camarasa performed her research career in a wide network of international collaborations in Spain, Europe, and the USA with top-laboratories with complementary expertise, skills and know-how, to more efficiently combat virus infections and cancer.

Her main research interests have been always oriented in the field of Medicinal Chemistry and particularly, in the design, synthesis and evaluation of novel sugars, nucleosides, heterocycles and peptides as enzymatic inhibitors with potential anticancer, antifungal and antiviral activity, specially against the human immunodefiency virus (HIV-1). More recently her interests are also directed against the inhibition of protein-protein interactions in the discovery of anti-AIDS and anti-Leishmanial compounds.

She is recipient of several awards and prizes, including two international (UK) prizes. In 2001 she received the highly competitive and prestigous René Descartes Prize of the European Comission for Scientific and Technological Excellence through European collaborative research.

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Curriculum