Miró García, Nerea

Nerea Miró García is a PhD candidate at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Germany, affiliated with the GEOMAR Center for Marine Biotechnology (GEOMAR-Biotech). She is part of the Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network HOTBIO project, which focuses on developing secondary metabolites from marine microorganisms into characterized compounds for medicines, agrochemicals, and aquaculture drugs.

Research Interests: Her work centers on

• Marine natural product chemistry
• Discovery of bioactive compounds
• Antibiotic development
• Genome mining
• ADMET profiling
• Marine microbial diversity

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Projects: She contributes to HOTBIO’s holistic approach to marine biodiscovery, integrating chemical diversity with computer-aided drug design, medicinal chemistry, and target deconvolution. The project involves a pan-European consortium of academic and industry partners.

Contact: Office located at Building 5 (ENB), Room 2.420, GEOMAR-Biotech, Wischhofstrasse 1-3, 24148 Kiel, Germany. Phone: +49 431 600-4432.