María Jesus Vicent Docón received her Ph.D. degree in 2001 in chemistry on solid supports from the University Jaume I Castellón (Spain) after several scientific stays in Prof. Fréchet’s laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). She then moved to more biomedically oriented research, initially with the Spanish company Instituto Biomar SA., and subsequently at the Centre for Polymer Therapeutics with Prof. R. Duncan after the award of a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2002. In 2004, María joined the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF) as a research associate through a Marie Curie Reintegration contract and was promoted to her current position as head of the Polymer Therapeutics Laboratory at the CIPF in 2006.   

Research activity is focused on the design of second generation polymer conjugates, novel nanomedicines with application in cancer and tissue regeneration as therapeutics, as well as molecular diagnostic tools. The development of novel biodegradable polymeric carriers, the use of combination therapy or the design of nanoconjugates directed at novel molecular targets, including novel treatments for neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer's Disease and Spinal Cord Injury) are some of the approaches we are following in order to achieve highly specific and effective nanopharmaceutics.