Dr. Ruben Tormo

José Rubén Tormo (ruben.tormo@medinaandalucia.es) is the Associate Area Head of Chemistry & Collection Manager at Fundacion MEDINA. Dr. Tormo has more than twenty-five years of Research & Development experience in international (Merck & Co, VLT BioPharma) pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies; international experience in the design, development, and supervision of automated chemical extraction techniques for microbial fermentations, the compound management of synthetic compounds and microbial natural products, the isolation and structural elucidation of natural products, in vitro (target-based; cell- based) and in vivo (drosophila) HTS screening, cytotoxicity evaluation, in vitro P450 induction on HTS culture cell lines, and biochemical evaluations of mitochondrial respiratory chain inhibitors. Dr. Tormo currently works as the Collection Manager, the Natural Products libraries management and generation from microbial extracts and plants, Fundación MEDINA, Granada, Spain, and participates in the chemical and metabolomic characterization of libraries of microbial extracts and the isolation and identification of active compounds in the areas of cancer, antibacterials, antifungals, antimalarials, tuberculosis, and neuroprotection. Dr. Tormo has published over a hundred research articles in international journals, supervised nine MS thesis projects and three PhD Thesis projects, and is currently directing four PhD Thesis projects at the University of Granada.