M.ANTONIA BUSQUETS VIÑAS

M.ANTONIA BUSQUETS VIÑAS

Associate professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-6232-9886
Researcher ID: H-6555-2015
Knowledge area: Química Física

Research group:

  • RMN de biomolècules
  • PhotoBioCat

Contact Information
Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry
Avda. Joan XIII s/n
934024556
mabusquetsvinas(a)ub.edu

Academic training

Llicenciatura en Farmàcia
Especialista en Anàlisi i Control de Medicaments
Doctorat en Farmàcia

Research interests

Preparation of liposomes and drug encapsulation
Interaction studies of drugs with membrane models
Preparation and characterization of iron oxide nanoparticles for theranostic applications
Prussian blue nanoparticles: Design, synthesis and theranostic applications

Projects

Nanopartículas magnéticas para aplicaciones teranósticas: magnetoliposomas . 2013 - 2015 . Ref.MAT2012-36270-C04-03 . Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad . PI: M.Antonia Busquets Viñas
Nanopartícules amb aplicacions teranòstiques . 2014 - 2017 . Ref.2014SGR227 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Joan Estelrich Latras
IMPROVEMENT OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIAL LUNG INFECTIONS . 2019 - 2022 . Ref.26/U/2018 . Fundació La Marató de TV3 . PI: Julian Gonzalez Martin
RMN de biomolècules . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR237 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Miquel Pons Valles
Laser activation of smart nanosystems for photothermal therapies of cancer cells . 2019 - 2020 . Ref.25173 . Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia de la UB. IN2UB. . PI: Juan Marcos Fernandez Pradas
Compuestos anti-amiloides fácilmente disponibles para prevenir la internalización celular de los coronavirus . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.PID2021-127863OB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Raimon Sabate Lagunas; Alba Espargaro Colome
PhotoBioCat . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.2021 SGR 00668 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Patricio Gamez Enamorado
Feria (TEC)NanoInventum: Nano+tecnología para los ODS . 2023 - 2024 . Ref.FCT-22-17932 . Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia . PI: Jordi Diaz Marcos
Design and Evaluation of Small Iron Oxide Nanorods as Antitumoral Therapeutic Agents . 2023 - 2024 . Ref.2023IG104963ZL . Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia de la UB. IN2UB. . PI: Carlos Moya Alvarez

Relevant publications

Antonia Busquets, Maria; Novella-Xicoy, Ariadna; Guzman, Valeria; Estelrich, Joan. Facile Synthesis of Novel Prussian Blue-Lipid Nanocomplexes. In Molecules. Volume 24. Number 22. 2019 . Institutional Repository
Estelrich, J.; Busquets, M.A. Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in Photothermal Therapy. In Molecules. Volume 23. 2018 . Institutional Repository
Alvarez-Berbel, I.; Espargaró, A.; Viayna, A.; Caballero, A. B.; Busquets, M. A.; Gamez, P.; Luque, F. J.; Sabate, R. Three to tango: Inhibitory Effect of quercetin and apigenin on acetylcholinesterase, amyloid-β aggregation and acetylcholinesterase-amyloid interaction. In Pharmaceutics. Volume 14. Number 11. 2022 . Institutional Repository
Estelrich, J.; Busquets, M.A. Prussian blue: a nanozyme with versatile catalytic properties. In International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Volume 22. Number 11. 2021 . Institutional Repository
Delgado, A.; Griera, R.; Llor, N.; López-Aguilar, E.; Busquets, M. A.; Noé, V.; Ciudad, C. J. Trioleyl Pyridinium, a Cationic Transfection Agent for the Lipofection of Therapeutic Oligonucleotides into Mammalian Cells. In Pharmaceutics. 2023 . Institutional Repository
Andrea Bertran-Mostazo; Gabriele Putriute; Irene Álvarez-Berbel; Maria Antònia Busquets; Carles Galdeano; Alba Espargaró; Raimon Sabate. Proximity-Induced Pharmacology for Amyloid-Related Diseases. In Cells. Volume 13. Number 5. 2024 . https://doi.org/10.3390/cells13050449
Busquets, M.A.; Fernández-Pradas, J.M.; Serra, P.; Estelrich, J. Superparamagnetic nanoparticles with efficient near-infrared photothermal effect at the second biological window. In Molecules. Volume 25. Number 22. 2020 . Institutional Repository
Kowalczyk, J.; Grapsi, E.; Espargaró, A.; Caballero, A.B.; Juárez-Jiménez, J.; Busquets, MA.; Gamez, P.; Sabate, R.; Estelrich, J. Dual effect of Prussian Blue nanoparticles on Aβ40 aggregation: β-sheet fibril reduction and copper dyshomeostasis regulation. In Biomacromolecules. Volume 22. Number 2. 2021 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.0c01290