Victor Guallar
Chief Scientific Officer Barcelona Supercomputing Center
An ICREA Professor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Dr. Guallar completed his PhD in theoretical chemistry between University Autonomous of Barcelona (Spain) and UC Berkeley. After three years as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, he was appointed assistant professor at Washington University School of Medicine, before moving his group to BSC in 2006. His laboratory has grown considerably since developing important contributions in computational biophysics, such as the protein-ligand modeling software PELE, and biochemistry, including computational algorithms for enzyme engineering and the introduction of the first PluriZyme (enzyme with multiple actives sites).
Prof. Guallar has been awarded several important research projects, including the award of a prestigious advanced ERC grant. His lab has produced over 200 papers in international journals and completed 20 PhD thesis. Prof. Guallar is founder of BSC’s first spin off, Nostrum Biodiscovery, a biotech enterprise created in 2016 which aims to collaborate with companies for the development of drugs and molecules of biotechnological interest
Seminars
- Protein Language and biophysical modelling speak ligase dialect, and can rationally, efficiently and quickly find multiple ligases for a given target
- Binary complexes, from structural modelling open the door to novel molecular glue designs
- Novel AI methods can use the above techniques even in disordered proteins
