Pr. Bernard P. Roques

Biography

Bernard is a pharmacist, pharmacologist and has a Doctorate in physical chemistry from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He has been the Director of a Research Unit at the INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and the CNRS (National Centre of Scientific Research) for 21 years. He is also a Professor, holding the Chair of Pharmaco-chemistry at the University of Pharmacy in Paris. Bernard has spent more than 30 years in molecular drug design and development, and two of his molecules have already been brought to the market. He received the Galien Prize of Pharmaceutical Research (1995) and the Founder’s Award Lecturer from the International Narcotics Research Committee (2003) for his work related to enkephalinases. He is a Member of the French and European Academies of Sciences and the author of more than 700 publications and 30 international patents. Bernard together with Marie-Claude Fournié-Zaluski and Thierry Bourbié, co-founded Pharmaleads

Research Interest

physical chemistry