Juan Fraire obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Córdoba (Argentina) in 2016. After his doctorate, he joined the Laboratory of General Biochemistry and Physical Pharmacy at Ghent University (Belgium) as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on photoporation as an advanced drug delivery technique for nucleic acid-based therapies and cell transfection. He has received prestigious fellowships, including those from CONICET (Argentina), Fulbright (Boston University, USA), FWO (Ghent University, Belgium), and Beatriu de Pinós – Marie-Curie COFUND (IBEC, Spain). His initial contributions have been recognized with the Ocean Optics Young Investigator Award and the Sabato Institute Award. In 2021, he joined the Smart Nano-Bio-Devices group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC, Spain), and was promoted to senior researcher in 2023.

Juan is a Ramón y Cajal Principal Investigator at the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) within the Nanomedicine for Therapeutic Applications (NM4T) group, where he leads the Gene and Light Nanotherapies Lab (GLNT). His research interests include the rational design of nanocarriers for nucleic acid delivery, leveraging light-activated effects for intracellular delivery and immunogenic activation, and the development of stimulus-responsive nanosystems.

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