Sílvia Osuna

Sílvia Osuna is an ICREA research professor at UdG. Her research studies biochemical processes mainly related to enzyme catalysis at the interface between computational chemistry and biology. Her lab is developing new computational tools for predicting which amino acid changes are required to the enzyme structure to allow novel function, enhance a promiscuous side reaction, or expand its substrate scope.

Her group’s goal is to enable the routine computational design of proficient enzymes to boost their use in industry for the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant targets. She also applies the developed methodologies to studying biomolecules’ recognition and assembly processes with carbon-based materials. The European Research Council project funds the group – Consolidator Grant (ERC-2022-CoG-101088032) and 2 ERC- Proof of Concept.