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Prof. Dr. Marcelo J. Kogan is Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Chile and Principal Investigator at the Advanced Center for Chronic diseases (ACCDiS ). He is the Director of the Laboratory of NANOMEDICINE AND NANOTHERANOSTICS at this center.
In 2006 was Visitant Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch and in 2002 Visitant professor at University of Barcelona.
Biochemist and Pharmacist at the University of Buenos Aires and PhD in Organic Chemistry from the same University. He awarded two postdoctoral fellowships for government of Spain. His interest is centered on applications of nanobiomaterials in biomedicine for diagnosis and treatment of conformational diseases including drug delivery, Alzheimer's, Cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
He is a pioneer in the field of use nanoparticles for disaggregation of amyloids (Kogan et al, Nanoletters, 1,110, 2006). He has published 60 articles in international ISI Journals, 10 reviews, and four chapter books. He has been invited to present around 30 conferences in international meetings. He belonged to different organizing committees of international meetings.