PharmD-PhD and Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Lille since 1981. He chairs the scientific board of Paris Biotech Santé. He is a full member of the French Academy of Pharmacy. He joined DIVERCHIM as Scientific Advisor in 2000. In 1971, he got a degree of Pharmacist from the faculty of Pharmacy in Lille. From 1971 to 1981, he was research assistant, then associate professor. In 1976 he received a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Sciences in Lille. In 1981, he was appointed professor. From 1982 to 1986, he was in charge of a CNRS research unit at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Lille specialized in peptides. From 1986 to 1996, he was the founder and chairman of the department of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Pasteur Institute of Lille. Under his direction, this department grew to more than 60 researchers, designed several lipopeptide vaccines one of which went up to phase-2 in AIDS patients, developed NMR and X-Ray protein structure determination and implemented HTS and HTOS technologies. From 1996 to 1998, he was co-founder and CSO of Cerep, a public company specialised in HTS and HTOS technologies.From 1999 to 2004, he was Director of Chemistry at the Ferring Research Institute in Chilworth. During his career, he published more than 230 research papers in the fields of bioorganic and medicinal chemistry (Nature, Science, JACS, JOC, PNAS, J Exp Med…) and received numerous patents.

 Pharmacy, Biochemistry