Janine Cossy


Janine Cossy is a French chemist who specialises in the synthesis of biologically-active products and is a professor of organic chemistry at ESPCI ParisTech.

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, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories 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 and co-founded the startup Acanthe Biotech and CDP Innovation.

Distinctions







Janine Cossy is a member of IUPAC, the steering committee of the 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