Laurent Désaubry
CNRS research director
University of Strasbourg
Egypt
Biography
Dr Laurent Désaubry is a CNRS research director in the University of Strasbourg in France (website: http://desaubry.u-strasbg.fr/) and adjunct professor at Tianjin University of Science and Technology (TUST) in China. After a Ph.D. degree in medicinal chemistry at Strasbourg University and postdoctoral internership at SUNY at Stony Brook, USA and he Strasbourg he got a CNRS Research Senior Scientist at CNRS. He was promoted CNRS research director (corresponds to full professor) in 2014, and became also adjunct professor at TUST in 2015. He has published more than 90 publications and has been serving as an editorial board member of Frontiers in Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Current Chinese Chemistry and The Open Medicinal Chemistry Journal.
Research Interest
Our research is focused on the design and synthesis of metalloenzyme inhibitors and also of serine protease and serine hydrolase inhibitors with antibiotic properties. In addition, we are interested in the synthesis and conformational dynamics of supramolecular scaffolds related to cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) with applications in host-guest chemistry. Other active research areas involve synthetic methodology including cascade reactions and metal-catalyzed functionalization reactions.