We are looking for a highly motivated candidate willing to pursue a PhD in our young and dynamic ChemSynBio team at IQS School of Engineering - Ramon Llull University in Barcelona!

Group

At ChemSynBio ( we harness chemical and synthetic biology to create biotherapeutic and biomedical tools, especially to treat brain diseases and to understand brain transport. We aim to conduct groundbreaking research and to grow together!

Project

Extracellular targeted protein degradation has emerged as a new therapeutic modality . Several drugs exploiting this strategy are already in clinical trials and many exciting avenues remain to be explored in this new thriving field. In this project, we aim to develop a new platform to generate smart protein degraders with superior selectivity and degradation efficiency for the treatment of brain tumors . This project is highly interdisciplinary, involving directed evolution , protein engine...