2011/03/18

Series of Lectures 2011: Peter H. Seeberger

A bottle of refreshment, a remote control and four dolls are the means that Swiss chemistry Peter Seeberger uses to explain the importance of sugars for the health. Seeberger, university professor of Chemistry Organic in Free University of Berlin, has explained in conference organized by CIC bioGUNE and FBBVA how, although the bacteria invade our organism through the sugars present in it, the presence of other sugars -that do not exist in the human body- in the surface of the parasites, can be used to detect and to destroy these invaders and, in the future, to create vaccines that allow to fight diseases.