Speakers

The following speakers, active in industrial research, will present recent advances in Research and Development in numerous domains in chemistry (catalytic, pharmaceutical, materials science, geochemistry and information technology in chemistry) 

Dr. Fodil BOUAZZA                         Laboratory manager - @RTMOLECULE 

Dr. Jean-Christophe CARRY           Group Leader Medicinal Chemistry - Drug Discovery & Pre-clinical Development - SANOFI

Dr. Carine CULOT-RYPENS            Customer Consultant, Life Sciences R&D Solutions - ELSEVIER

Dr. Nicolas DURUPT                        Responsable Laboratoire d'Essais - ORANO (Areva)

Dr. Michel THOMAS                         Ingénieur de Recherche senior -  IFP Energies nouvelles

RESUMES :

Dr. Fodil Bouazza obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Poitiers under the direction of Pr. J-P Gesson and Dr. B. Renoux on the “Selective Synthesis of Fungicide PF1163 and Analogues”. He then spent one year as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut Curie d’Orsay in the laboratory of Dr. D. Grierson. Since 2005 he has been a laboratory director in the research and development sector at @rtMolecule in Poitiers. He specializes in the synthesis of metabolites and “cold” stable isotope labelling of organic molecules. Within @rtMolecule he collaborates with the “Superacids Laboratory” of the IC2MP Institute of the University of Poitiers on research targeting access to labelled standards, which are otherwise not available elsewhere.

Dr. Jean-Christophe Carry works at Sanofi (Paris, France) as a medicinal chemistry group and project leader, in a global scientific platform called Integrated Drug Discovery. Prior to that, he worked in Sanofi Oncology Drug Discovery from 2004 to 2014. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at Aventis in the global Medicinal Chemistry Department, being involved in several international collaborations in connection with various therapeutic areas and at Rhône-Poulenc Rorer as a medicinal chemist, in the field of Anti-Infectious diseases from 1992 to 1999. He got his PhD in organic chemistry with Pr. G.H. Posner from the Johns Hopkins University (USA) in 1992. He has published more than 75 papers and patents.

 Dr. Carine CULOT-RYPENS obtained her PhD degree in 1991 from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium supervised by Professor J Nasielski on "Substitution Nucléophile en Série aromatique et Cinétique -Complexes avec métaux de transition, application en photochimie’’. She then worked at the Searle & Eli Lilly Development Center (Mont Saint Guibert, Belgium) until 2000 having numerous resposnsibilities, such as Development of projects assigned to Process; design and development of sustainable industrial synthesis methods; follow up of pilot chemical plant synthesis, scaling up, support to pre-clinical and clinical activities. From 1997-2000 she was also in charge of molecular computer simulation and modeling for the scientific departments. From 2001-2007, Dr Culot-Rypens moved to ELSEVIER-MDL Information Systems (Bourg La Reine, France), successively as Product Support Specialist, Technical Training Specialist; Scientific Advisor/Instructor Senior Instructor and European Training Coordinator with educational and consulting responsibilities on scientific information access and usage in Chemical Synthesis, Pharmacology and Toxicology. Since 2007 she moved to Elsevier Masson (France) in Manager Customer Care – PharmaBiotech products (2007 – 2015), developing and managing a new global Elsevier support group for PharmaBiotech products and Core and Life Sciences Products Consultant.

Dr. Nicolas Durupt. Having graduated from ENSIC NANCY (process engineering) in 1991, Nicolas DURUPT then obtained his PhD on the catalytic reduction of the uranyl nitrate and the modelling of a three-phase reactor. In 1995, he enters as chemical engineer in a Research and Development department of COGEMA, called SEPA.

After an expatriation in Ivory Coast in the gold mine of Ity, where he was in charge of the ore processing, he returns to SEPA in 2003 to take the head of the Industrial Pilot Section.  Since 2009, he is in charge of the Test laboratory.

He has more than 25 years of experience in the definition and development of ore treatment (uranium and gold mainly) with a particular expertise on the heap leaching process.

Dr. Michel Thomas. After having obtained his PhD degree in 1989 on “the thermal cracking of heavy petroleum fractions” (CNRS - LMO, Solaize), Dr Michel THOMAS began his career at IFP Energies Nouvelles (in Rueil-Malmaison) as an Ingénieur de Recherche (researcher) in the Applied Physical Chemistry Department (1989-1996) in the domain of “Thermodynamics of reservoir fluids (natural gas hydrates formation, asphaltene flocculation)”. Since 1996, he joined the sector of “Catalysis, Biocatalysis and Separations” (IFPEN Lyon site since 2003). His current principal research themes concern the separation or purification of various loads and effluents, within the domains of natural gas treatment or refining and petrochemistry, involving adsorption on porous/reactive solids. He has published around 70 papers and patents.

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