The people behind the pipeline.
A multidisciplinary team of computational chemists, machine-learning engineers, structural biologists and HPC specialists — based in Murcia, working with partners worldwide.
The group, 2024 — 2025
Group leader
PI and scientific lead of BIO-HPC
Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, PhD
Director · BIO-HPC Research Group · UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia
Twenty-five years building computational methods that move compounds from supercomputers to the clinic. Leads the group’s drug-discovery pipeline (12 programs, 8 patents, 2 clinical studies) and its software portfolio of 12 open tools, with 200+ peer-reviewed publications and 6M€+ raised in competitive funding.
Read full profile →Researchers
Postdoctoral researchers, PhD candidates and collaborators
Alfonso Pérez Garrido
QSAR / QSPR modelling, predictive toxicology and chemometrics for environmental and pharmaceutical compounds.
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Antonio Jesús Banegas-Luna
Drug discovery on HPC, virtual screening pipelines and AI for structure- and ligand-based design.
Read more →Carlos Martínez Cortés
Machine learning and AI for drug discovery and personalised medicine. Co-developer of Blind Docking Server, DIA-DB and MetaScreener.
Read more →Miguel Carmena Bargueño
Molecular dynamics simulations at scale (TOLEDO) and large-scale virtual screening and blind docking with MetaScreener.
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Jochem Nelen
Computational chemistry and consensus-based virtual screening for early-stage drug discovery, in collaboration with Eurofins Villapharma.
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Alejandro Rodríguez Martínez
Structural bioinformatics and molecular modelling, with a background in biochemistry, molecular biology and bioinformatics.
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All commercial enquiries, partnership proposals and academic collaborations come directly to the group leader.
Research contracts
Drug discovery, HPC capacity and AI-on-HPC services — hperez@ucam.edu
PhD & postdoc supervision
Open and upcoming positions are listed in Open positions.
Joint EU & national projects
Co-supervision and proposal writing for Horizon, Marie Curie and Spanish national calls — hperez@ucam.edu
Prof. Horacio Pérez-Sánchez · hperez@ucam.edu