The Biomedical section carries out studies focussed on the molecular and functional characterization of bioactive substances of plant origin or synthetic and of enzymatic proteins; proteomic / peptidomic characterization of biofluids, cellular and tissue extracts for the identification of disease biomarkers; molecular characterization of plant genes and analysis of SNPs in the human genome; characterization of HIV-1 inhibitors, human endogenous retroviruses and mechanisms of escape of the human innate immune response by RNA viruses.