Marcelo Calderón is IKERBASQUE Research Professor and leader of the Responsive Polymers for Therapeutics Group at POLYMAT. His team develops polymer materials that sense environmental triggers and respond at the site of action as innovative therapeutic and diagnostic tools in biomedicine. Their materials have been applied in imaging, tumor ablation by hyperthermia, capture and quantification of circulating tumor cells (CTCs), wound healing, and dermal/mucosal drug delivery.