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About our work
https://www.ens.psl.eu/actualites/des-catalyseurs-bio-inspires-pour-lutter-contre-le-stress-oxydant
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Read our last papers
–SOD mimics delivered to the gut using lactic acid bacteria mitigate the colitis symptoms in a mouse model of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Gabrielle Schanne, Amandine Vincent, Florian Chain, Pauline Ruffié, Célia Carbonne, Elodie Quévrain, Emilie Mathieu, Alice Balfourier, Luis E. Bermudez, Philippe Langella, Sophie Thenet, Véronique Carrière, Nassim Hammoudi, Magali Svreck, Sylvie Demignot, Philippe Seksik, Clotilde Policar, N. Delsuc, Free Radical Research (2025)
–Redox Shotgun Proteomics Reveals Specific Lipopolysaccharide Effects on Intestinal Epithelial Cells, Mitigated by a Mn Superoxide Dismutase Mimic, Martha Zoumpoulaki, Giovanni Chiappetta, Jena Bouvet, Namita Raju John, Pauline Gehan, Samuel Diebolt, Shakir Shakir, Elodie Quévrain, Emilie Mathieu, Sylvie Demignot, Philippe Seksik, Nicolas Delsuc, Joelle Vinh*, Clotilde Policar*, Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. (2025), e202422644.
Read a short presentation on the FRENCHBIC webiste
– Rhenium fac-Tricarbonyl Bisimine Chalcogenide Complexes: Synthesis, Photophysical Studies, and Confocal and Time-Resolved Cell Microscopy
Till Neumann, Vadde Ramu, Julie Bertin, Menglan He, Caitlan Vervisch, Michael P. Coogan, Helene C. Bertrand, Inorganic Chemistry, 2024
– Insights in developmental endocrinology: 2023
Lawrence M. Nelson, Mayank Choubey, Hiroyasu Kamei, Christine Rampon, Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2024
– Multiplexed In Vivo Imaging with Fluorescence Lifetime-Modulating Tags
Lina El Hajji, France Lam, Maria Avtodeeva, Hela Benaissa, Christine Rampon, Michel Volovitch, Sophie Vriz, Arnaud Gautier, Advanced Science, 2024
– Pt (IV) anticancer prodrugs bearing an oxaliplatin scaffold: what do we know about their bioactivity?
Lopez-Sanchez, A., & Bertrand, H, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2024
– Cellular evaluation of superoxide dismutase mimics as catalytic drugs: Challenges and opportunities
Schanne, G., Demignot, S., Policar, C., & Delsuc, N. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024
Arrivals
-April 2025: welcome to Prof. Ankona Datta (TIFR, Mumbai, India) as an invited professor
-Novembre 2024 : welcome to Dr. Anastasia Behar as post doctoral fellow
-October 2024: welcome to Yanyi Chen, Célia Léger and Emmanuel Marcos as PhD students.
-May 2024: welcome to Willem Kauffeld as a PhD student
-May 2024: welcome to Prof. Vincent Pecoraro (Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor) as an invited professor
-October 2022: welcome to Caitlan Vervisch and Namita John as PhD students (supervision Hélène Bertrand and Clotilde Policar)
-May 2022: welcome to Prof. Janet Morrow (Univ. Buffalo, US) as an invited professor
-February 2022: welcome to Dr. Alice Balfourier as an assistant professor
-October 2021: welcome to Alvaro Lopez-Sanchez as a PhD student (supervision Hélène Bertrand)
-September 2021: welcome to Prof. Sophie Vriz, Dr. Christine Rampon and Prof. Michel Volovitch. The group “Metals in biology” becomes “Metals in Biology and redox homeostasis”!
-January 2021: congratulations to Paul Rochette that has obtained a fellowship through the PSL graduated program to join us for a M2 internship!
-January 2020: welcome to Prof. Janet Morrow (Univ. Buffalo, US) as an invited professor
-May 2018: welcome to Prof. Dani Gibson (Hebrew univ. of Jerusalem) as an invited professor
-June 2017: installation of the IR-microscope!

-May 2017: welcome to Prof. Rachel Austin (Barnard college, NY, US) as an invited professor.
Students’ Awards: Congratulation to all of you!
-“Journée de la montagne Sainte-Geneviève” (June 2022): Alvaro Sanchez Lopez received the best presentation award

-“Journée de la montagne Sainte-Geneviève” (June 2022): Jean Bouvet received the best presentation award.

-FrenchBIC 2020: Gabrielle Schanne was awarded the best poster prize
-Summer school metals in biology (metbio): Martha Zoumpoulaki was awarded the best poster prize
-Journées de la montagne Sainte-Geneviève 2019: Amandine Vincent was awarded the best communication prize
-ISABC 2017 (June): Emilie Mathieu was awarded the prize of the Inorganics best Poster Award
at the International Symposium in Bioinorganic Chemistry 2017.
-Emilie Mathieu was awarded a fellowship for an international collaboration by the FrenchBIC.
-Sylvain Clède, winner of the prize for the Best Student Poster at the 2012 SOLEIL Users’ Meeting.
interview:
http://www.synchrotronsoleil.fr/portal/page/portal/Soleil/ToutesActualites/2012/SUM2012
-Sylvain Clède, winner of the Prix de thèse 2014 de la Division Chimie-Physique de la Société Chimique de France.