Alain Commerçon Phd

Biography

Dr Commerçon is a former Senior Research Director within the “Lead Generation” organization at Sanofi-Aventis. His responsibilities included managing the High Throughput Medicinal Chemistry department of the Paris research centre (Vitry and Romainville). He started his career with Rhone Poulenc Health Care in 1979 and was appointed to distinguished positions in particular as head of Chemistry – Oncology, Natural Products Chemistry and Bioconjugation Chemistry. Between 1996 and 1997, as the director of New Lead Generation, he set up the combinatorial chemistry group at RPR France. He has directly contributed to the discovery and development of a number of molecules, two of them having been placed on the market. He is currently a consultant to the pharma sector addressing medical nutrition and drug discovery & development from different perspectives.

Research Interest

Bioinformatics & Systems Biology