SOMM Alliance

The Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials - CIC biomaGUNE - located in San Sebastián (Spain), was officially inaugurated in December 2006. It comprises 11 international and dynamic research teams, which conduct high-level research at the interface between chemistry, physics and biology, with particular emphasis on the properties and applications of nanostructures at the biomolecular level.

The final aim of CIC biomaGUNE’s research is to contribute to understanding the way in which biological systems interact with nanometer-sized materials, at the molecular level. The main research lines deal with the design, preparation and characterization of biofunctional nanostructures and their in vitro and in vivo biological evaluation, to be used in the study of biological processes and the development of biomedical tools such as theranostic or multitherapeutic platforms.

CIC biomaGUNE’s cutting-edge infrastructure includes the Molecular Imaging Facility, a reference platform in Europe in the field of molecular and functional pre-clinical imaging.