This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Sonia Trigueros designs novel nanostructures capable of delivering drugs directly to a targeted area of the human body. This revolutionary technology may be able to treat everything from antibiotic resistant bacteria to cancer.
Sonia Trigueros’s research focuses on the design of novel nanostructures to target DNA biomolecular motors and DNA conformational states in dividing cells, specifically cancer cells. She is developing nanomedicines to tackle bacterial antibiotic resistance. A PhD in molecular biology from IBMB-CSIC and Universidad de Barcelona, Trigueros was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and Oxford, and a research visitor to many academic institutions including NIH-Washington and Havana University. She is an associated professor at the Physics Department and co-director of the Oxford Martin Institute of Nanoscience for Medicine at University of Oxford.
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