Dr. Federico Gago

Biography

 Dr. Gago studied Pharmacy at Complutense University, Madrid, and holds a PhD from the Alcalá de Henares University. He followed post-doctoral studies at the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University. He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Alcalá, near Madrid. Dr. Gago has extensive expertise in the use of computational tools with a view to solving pharmacologically relevant problems involving small ligands and their macromolecular receptors (including proteins and nucleic acids) and has a long-standing experience in quantitative structure-activity relationships for series of analogues. Dr. Gago has a consolidated track record of fruitful collaborations with groups from both academia and industry for the development of both new drug candidates and artificial receptors, as well as for providing insight in atomic detail about binding interactions. He is an author or co-author of over 130 reports in scientific journals and has contributed several book chapters

Research Interest

 Pharma