Janine Cossy (born in 1950) is a French chemist who specialises in the synthesis of biologically-active products and is an emeritus professor of

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Biography

Janine Cossy earned a doctorate in chemistry at the

University of Reims The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (; URCA), also known simply as the University of Reims, is a public university based in Reims, France. In addition to the main campus in Reims, the university has several campuses located throughout t ...

, and then undertook a post-doctoral fellowship with the team of Professor

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at the

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. 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,

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or products acting on the central nervous system. She has also conducted research on free-radical reactions and

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reactions. Janine Cossy has been a consultant for

Rhône-Poulenc Rhône-Poulenc () was a French chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in 1928. In 1999, it merged with Hoechst AG to form Aventis. As of 2015, the pharmaceutical operations of Rhône-Poulenc are part of Sanofi and the chemicals divisions ...

, Rhodia and

L'Oréal L'Oréal S.A. () is a French multinational personal care corporation registered in Paris

and co-founded the startup Acanthe Biotech and CDP Innovation.

Distinctions

* Elected President of the Organic Chemistry Division of the

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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 The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is awarded to a researcher for "the originality, quality and importance of their work, re ...

in 1996 * Awarded the by the French Chemical Society in 2009 * Admitted as a Knight to the National Order of Merit in 1997 * Awarded several pharmaceutical company prizes:

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in 2000 and 2008, the

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in 2001,

Eli Lilly and Company Eli Lilly and Company, Trade name, doing business as Lilly, is an American multinational Medication, pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with offices in 18 countries. Its products are sold in approximately 125 count ...

in 2008,

Abbott Laboratories Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, in the United States. The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate k ...

in 2008, and both

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and

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in 2010. * Admitted as a Knight to the

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in 2013 Janine Cossy is a member of

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, the steering committee of the and the scientific counsel of

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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 m ...

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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 ''The Journal of Organic Chemistry'', colloquially known as ''JOC'', is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for original contributions of fundamental research in all branches of theory and practice in organic and bioorganic chemistry. It is publ ...

Works

* Carbon with No Attached Heteroatoms (

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, 2005) * Comprehensive organic functional group transformations (Elsevier Science, 2005)

References

External links

Profile at ESPCI
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