CONCEPCION GONZALEZ BELLO

CONCEPCION GONZALEZ BELLO is a Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Faculty of Chemistry and its Department of Organic Chemistry. She leads the INCTB research group (Enzyme Inhibitors and Chemical Tools in Biology) and collaborates with BCS (Biological and Supramolecular Chemistry) and COMMO (Organometallic Catalysis and Organic Molecular Materials) groups. Her work focuses on enzyme inhibition mechanisms, antibiotic resistance reversal, and computational modeling of drug-target interactions within the Research Center in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS).

Research Trends: Recent publications emphasize combating antibiotic resistance through novel β-lactamase inhibitors, structural studies of bacterial enzymes like type II dehydroquinase and shikimate kinase, and molecular modeling of resistance mechanisms in pathogens like Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Her team explores siderophore-antibiotic conjugates, photophysical drug interactions, and computational approaches to improve inhibitor design against carbapenemases and other resistance factors.