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1st Place Emerging Talents Breakthrough of the Year

Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)

Karen de la Vega-Hernández

  • 2025
  • Speaker
  • Lab

Karen de la Vega-Hernández is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Spain. She earned her PhD at Sorbonne University and has worked across radical chemistry, supramolecular catalysis, and photochemistry. She now focuses on rethinking how to build better medicines to drive innovation in drug design and synthesis. In 2025, she was named a CAS Future Leader.