Jordi Mestres i López
researcher and genealogist
Jordi Mestres i López (born 1967, Girona) is a Catalan chemical researcher who works in the field of research for molecules of pharmacological interest. He is also an active researcher as a genealogist.
Early life
Jordi Mestres was a student at Escolania de Montserrat (1977–1981). In 1990 he obtained a degree in chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and in 1995 a doctorate in chemistry (computational chemistry) from the University of Girona (UdG), with short research stays at the Université de Paris-Sud (1992), Rice University (1993) and the pharmaceutical company Upjohn Co. ( Kalamazoo, United States; 1995).
Research in chemistry
In parallel to his research in the field of quantum chemistry, he headed towards the computational design of drugs, with a post-doctoral stay at the company Pharmacia & Upjohn ( Kalamazoo, United States ).
In 1997 he joined NV Organon as a researcher ( Oss, Netherlands ) and three years later was appointed Director of Computational Medical Chemistry at Organon Laboratories (Newhouse, United Kingdom ). In 2003 he started the Chemiogenomics Research Group of the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), where he has been a researcher until 2023. He has been an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF).
In 2006 he founded the company Chemotargets SL, which has developed benchmark software in the field of pharmacology prediction and molecule safety, used, for example, by the American regulatory agency of the drug ( FDA ).
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