{"id":545,"date":"2023-11-07T16:05:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/?page_id=545"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:16:57","slug":"aina-urbina-teixidor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/aina-urbina-teixidor\/","title":{"rendered":"Aina Urbina Teixidor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel \">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/aina-urbina-teixidor.webp\" alt=\"Aina Urbina Teixidor\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/aina-urbina-teixidor.jpg\" alt=\"Aina Urbina Teixidor\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/aina-urbina-teixidor.jpg\" alt=\"Aina Urbina Teixidor\"><br \/>\n  <\/source><\/source><\/figure>\n<h2>Degree(s)<\/h2>\n<p>BSc in Pharmacy (2015), University of Barcelona<br \/>\nPhD in Organic Chemistry (2020), University of Barcelona<\/p>\n<h2>Staff email<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:AUrbinateixidor001@dundee.ac.uk\">AUrbinateixidor001@dundee.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Profile<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">Aina<\/span> completed her undergraduate degree in Pharmacy at the University of Barcelona, during which she became interested in organic chemistry. After an internship at the Organic Chemistry Lab at the same university and R&amp;D experience at Almirall, <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">Aina<\/span>undertook her PhD in Organic Chemistry in the research group of Prof. Joan Bosch and Prof. Mercedes Amat. There, she focused on enantioselective total synthesis of natural products, ending with a short postdoctoral stint after that. <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">Aina<\/span> then moved to Dundee to join the AC-Almirall collaboration in May 2021 as a medicinal chemist to develop novel PROTACs, keen on expanding her knowledge of structure-based drug design and protein-ligand interactions. In January 2025, she joined the LITE Team as a High-Throughput Experimentation scientist. In her spare time, <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">Aina<\/span> enjoys reading, sports, and exploring nature with her dog.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Degree(s) BSc in Pharmacy (2015), University of Barcelona PhD in Organic Chemistry (2020), University of Barcelona Staff email AUrbinateixidor001@dundee.ac.uk Profile Aina completed her undergraduate degree in Pharmacy at the University of Barcelona, during which she became interested in organic chemistry. After an internship at the Organic Chemistry Lab at the same university and R&amp;D experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":188,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions\/4465"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}