Dr. Pedro Ramos Cabrer, who joined the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory in May 2014, has been awarded an Ikerbasque Research Professorship. His activity will be focused on the development of lipid-based biomimicking nanomaterials and their use in molecular imaging applications, with particular focus in the field of neurosciences.

Dr. Ramos Cabrer graduated in 1994 in chemistry by the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 2000 he obtained a PhD from the Physical Chemistry of Colloids Laboratory, University of Santiago. In 2008 he obtained an MSc degree as expert in experimental animals for biomedical research, C Category by the University of Granada. He worked as postdoctoral researcher at the In vivo NMR Laboratory of the Utrecht Medical Center (Utrecht) 05/2001-10/2003 and at the In vivo NMR Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research (Cologne) 12/2003-12/2006. After a long period abroad, he returned to Spain as Parga Pondal Researcher (Galician Government) at the Clinical University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela (12/2006-02/2010) and then as Miguel Servet Researcher (Spanish Ministry of Health) at the same hospital (02/2010-10/2014). He has been visiting researcher at the Laboratory of Nanomedicine of the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York (07-11/2013), collaborating docent of the Department of Medicine of the University of Santiago de Compostela (2008-2014) and member of the bioethics committee of the same university (2011-2014). He has an H-index of 21, 53 publications in indexed journals, 4 registered patents, 6 book chapters and over 60 papers, courses and invited lectures.