Janine Cossy (born in 1950) is a French chemist who specialises in the synthesis of biologically-active products and is an emeritus professor of
organic chemistry
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at
ESPCI Paris.
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
Barry M. Trost (born June 13, 1941, in Philadelphia) is an American chemist who is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor Emeritus in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. The Tsuji-Trost reaction and the Trost ligand are ...
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, antibiotics,
anti-inflammatories
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or products acting on the central nervous system. She has also conducted research on free-radical reactions and
photochemical reactions.
[
Janine Cossy has been a consultant for Rhône-Poulenc, Rhodia and ]L'Oréal
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and co-founded the startup Acanthe Biotech and CDP Innovation.
Distinctions
* Elected President of the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society from 2002 to 2006 and of the Franco-Japanese Chemical Society
* Awarded the Jungfleish Prize by the Academy of Sciences in 1996
* Awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 1996
* Awarded the by the French Chemical Society in 2009
* Admitted as a Knight to the National Order of Merit An order of merit is conferred by a state, government or royal family on an individual in recognition of military or civil merit.
Order of merit may also refer to:
* FIFA Order of Merit, for significant contribution to association football
* PDC O ...
in 1997
* Awarded several pharmaceutical company prizes: Novartis
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (global research).name="novartis.com">https://www.novartis.com/research-development/research-loc ...
in 2000 and 2008, the Boehringer Ingelheim
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in 2001, Eli Lilly and Company
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in 2008, Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, United States. The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate known dr ...
in 2008, and both AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers-Squibb
The Bristol Myers Squibb Company (BMS) is an American multinational pharmaceutical company. Headquartered in New York City, BMS is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and consistently ranks on the ''Fortune'' 500 list of the lar ...
in 2010.
* Admitted as a Knight to the Legion of Honour
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in 2013
Janine Cossy is a member of IUPAC
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,CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
for the 2010–2014 term. She edits the scientific journals Organic Letters
''Organic Letters'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in organic chemistry. It was established in 1999 and is published by the American Chemical Society. In 2014, the journal moved to a hybrid open access publishing ...
, New Journal of Chemistry
The ''New Journal of Chemistry'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research and review articles on all aspects of chemistry. It is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry on behalf of the French National Centre for Scient ...
, European Journal of Organic Chemistry
The ''European Journal of Organic Chemistry'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering organic chemistry. It is published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of Chemistry Europe.
The journal, along with the ''European Journal of Inorganic Chemistr ...
and the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Works
* Carbon with No Attached Heteroatoms ( Elsevier Science, 2005)
* Comprehensive organic functional group transformations (Elsevier Science, 2005)
References
External links
Profile at ESPCI
(English)
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1950 births
Living people
Scientists from Reims
20th-century French chemists
21st-century French chemists
French women chemists
Knights of the Legion of Honour
21st-century French women scientists