Concepción González-Bello's Biography

Concepción González-Bello, Professor, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Dr Concepción González-Bello has obtained her PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC, Spain) in 1994. She did two predoctoral stays in the University of Gent (Belgium) with Prof. Vandewalle and in the Scripps Research Institute (USA) with Prof. Nicolaou. After a postdoctoral stay in the University of Cambridge (UK) with Prof. Abell, she joined USC as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and obtained the Spanish habilitation to full Professor in 2011. She joined the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS) as a group leader in 2011. She is author of about 80 papers and several book chapters and an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE. Her main research interest is to develop updated therapies targeting infectious diseases, in particular, drugs with new mechanisms of action to combat the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.