Dr. José Manuel Brea is an Assistant Professor and Head of the HTS Unit of the Biofarma group at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has more than 15 years of experience in pharmacological research, from both basic and applied research. He has conducted academic research periods at Parc de Recerca Biomédica de Barcelona (Spain) and the University of Glasgow (Scotland). In basic research, he focuses on the study of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and the phenomena that regulate their functions (oligomerization, functional selectivity, allosterism, etc.). In applied research, his major interests are in the fields of Assay Development and Throughput Screening in Drug Discovery programs. In addition, he was awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize from the School of Pharmacy of the University of Santiago de Compostela (2004) and the best Communication in the Spanish Pharmacological Society Meeting (Alcalá de Henares, 2009).