Janine Cossy

Janine Cossy (born in 1950) is a French chemist who specialises in the synthesis of biologically-active products and is a professor of organic chemistry at ESPCI ParisTech.[1]

Biography

Janine Cossy earned a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Reims, and then undertook a post-doctoral fellowship with the team of Professor Barry Trost at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Appointed as a professor at ESPCI ParisTech in 1990, her work focuses on the total synthesis of natural biologically-active products like anticancer agents,[2] antibiotics, anti-inflammatories or products acting on the central nervous system. She has also conducted research on free-radical reactions and photochemical reactions.[1] Janine Cossy has been a consultant for Rhône-Poulenc, Rhodia and L'Oréal and co-founded the startup Acanthe Biotech and CDP Innovation.[3]

Distinctions

  • Elected President of the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society[4] from 2002 to 2006 and of the Franco-Japanese Chemical Society
  • Awarded the Grand Prix Achille Le Bel by the French Chemical Society in 2009[6]

Janine Cossy is a member of IUPAC,[8] the steering committee of the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Foundation for Research and the scientific counsel of CNRS for the 2010-2014 term. She edits the scientific journals Organic Letters, New Journal of Chemistry, European Journal of Organic Chemistry and the Journal of Organic Chemistry.

Works

  • Carbon with No Attached Heteroatoms (Elsevier Science, 2005)
  • Comprehensive organic functional group transformations (Elsevier Science, 2005)

References

  1. 1 2 "Janine COSSY". European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2011 (20–21): 3562–3562. 2011-07-01. doi:10.1002/ejoc.201100863. ISSN 1099-0690.
  2. ↑ "ESPCI Paris : Les chercheurs font l'article : pour synthétiser l'acrémolide B". www.espci.fr (in French). 4 August 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "CNRS - Institut de chimie". www.cnrs.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Chimie Organique" (in French). 15 February 2005. Archived from the original on 3 October 2002. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Médailles d'argent du CNRS 1996". www.cnrs.fr. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Achille Le Bel - Lauréats". www.societechimiquedefrance.fr (in French). Société Chimique de France. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "Décret du 31 décembre 2012 portant promotion et nomination" (in French). Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry". old.iupac.org. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
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