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 CNRS Silver Medal in 1996[5]
  • Awarded the Grand Prix Achille Le Bel by the French Chemical Society in 2009[6]
  • Admitted as a Knight to the National Order of Merit in 1997

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. "Janine COSSY". European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2011 (20–21): 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). Archived from the original on 28 July 2016. 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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