Prof. Janine Cossy

Prof. Janine Cossy
Professeur Emérite - Professor Emeritus
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris - ESPCI Paris
Department C3M: "Molecular, Macromolecular and Material Chemistry"
Team CMC: "Molecular Chemistry and Catalysis"
10 rue Vauquelin 75005 Paris
janine.cossy@espci.fr

Areas of research interest and expertise

– New synthetic methods
– Metal-catalyzed cross-couplings (Fe, Co, Ni, Cu)
– Strained rings synthesis and reactivity
– Enantioselective rearrangements
– Synthesis of heterocycles using transition metal catalysts
– Synthesis of Fluorinated compounds
– Natural products synthesis
– Radical chemistry
– Photochemistry

Professional Career

– 1974-1976: PhD (Thèse de 3ème Cycle) at the University Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (supervisor: Prof. J. P. Pète)
– 1976-1979: PhD (Thèse d’Etat) at the University Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (supervisor: Prof. J. P. Pète)
– 1980-1982: Postdoctoral Fellow (Natural product synthesis and ring-opening of cyclopropanes) University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (Prof. B. M. Trost)
– 1976-1990: CNRS Research Assistant in Reims, France
– 10/1/1990: CNRS Director of Research in Reims, France
– Oct-1990: Full Professor at ESPCI ParisTech (Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris), Paris, France.
– 1992-2013: Director of a CNRS Research Unity (UMR 7084)
– 2008-: Vice-President of Acanthe-Biotech

Awards and honours

– 1987:

• CNRS Bronze Medal (France)

– 1991:

• Kippling Lecturership – Nottingham (UK)
• Langlois Award (France)

– 1996:

• Jungfleish Award from Académie des Sciences (France)
• CNRS Silver Medal (France)

– 1997:

• Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite (France)

– 2000:

• Novartis Lecturer, Charlosteville (USA)
• Focus Grant Eli-Lilly (USA)

– 2001:

• Boerhinger Lecturership, (USA)

– 2003:

• Focus Grant Johnson and Johnson (USA)

– 2005:

• UK Royal Society Rosalyn Francklin International Lecturership awarded to internationally recognized women scientists (UK)

– 2006:

• Gambrinus Fellowship, Dortmund (Germany)
• Langlois Award for research (France)

– 2008:

• Abbott Lecturership, Notre-Dame (USA)
• Eli-Lilly Lecturership Pittsburg (USA)
• Novartis Lecturership, ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

– 2009:

• Le Bel Award from the French Chemical Society (France)
• JSPS fellow, Tokyo University of Sciences, Tokyo (Japan)
• «Zasshikai Seminar» Lectureship, University of Tokyo (Japan)

– 2010:

• 2010 RSC/SFC Joint Lecturership in the Chemical Sciences (UK), Royal Society Chemistry - European Lecturership in the Chemical Sciences
• Astra-Zeneca Lectureship, Stockholm (Sweden)
• BMS Lecturership, UPenn (USA)

– 2011:

• ParisTech Award (France)
• Boerhinger-Ingelheim Lecturership, Université de Laval, Laval (Canada)
• Boerhinger-Ingelheim Lecturership, Université du Québec, Montréal (Canada)

– 2012:

• H. C. Brown Lecturership, Purdue University (USA)

– 2013:

• Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (France)

– 2014:

• Felix Serratosa Lecturership, Barcelona (Spain)
• GDCh-Bayer Pharma AG Lectureship, Wuppertal (Germany)

– 2015:

• Eli Lilly Lecturership, Sevilla (Spain)
• E. C. Taylor Senior Award (USA)
• UR Ghatak Endowment Award (India)
• Grant FET Open European’s Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme «Microflusa» (Partner)

– 2016:

• The Susan P. & Barry M. Trost Lecture in Organic Synthesis (USA)
• Tarrant Professorship, University of Florida (USA)
• Marie Curie European Grant «Fluonovelty»

– 2017:

• Lu Jiaxi Lecturership, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen (China)
• Elected at the French Academy of Sciences (France)

– 2018:

• Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Fundation (USA)
• Promoted Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (France)
• American Chemical Society Fellow (USA)
• Award of Professor PC RAY Chair from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA, India)

– 2019:

• IUPAC 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• Yangtze Award (Wuhan University, China)
• Distinguished Novartis Lecturer in Organic Chemistry (Illinois, USA)

Scolarship

– 2003: Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Sciences, Tokyo (Japan)

– 2013: Visting Professor, University of Mexico, Mexico City (Mexico)

– 2015: Visiting Professor, ITT Mumbay (India)

– 2018: Visiting Professor, University of Hyderabad (India)

– 2019: Visiting Professor, Universitty of Tokyo (Japan)

Membership

– 2012: Nominated Member of Academia Europae
– 2018: Member of the French Academy of Sciences, France

Advisory Panels, Consultancies and Professional Services

– 1986 : Secretary of the 12th International Symposium of Heterocyclic Chemistry in Reims, France

– 1987-1989: Secretary of the Société Française de Chimie, Division Chimie Organique (SFC-DCO)

– 1996-2002: Elected at the ESPCI Administration Council

– 2000-2002: Member of the CNRS commission N°16

– 1998-2002: Vice-President of the Société Française de Chimie, Division Chimie Organique (SFC-DCO)

– 2003-2005: Member of the Administration Council of Archemis

– 2003-2007: President of the Société Française de Chimie-Division Chimie Organique (SFC-DCO)

– 2006-2009: Elected Titular Member of the IUPAC (Titular Member of the Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Division III and Member of the COCI)

– 2010-2015: Fellow of the IUPAC

– 2007-2014: Member of the COPIL of the RTRA Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Paris (France)

– 2009-2012: Representative Member of the Professors of the City of Paris, Paris (France)

– 2009-2013: Member of the Direction Committee at ESPCI ParisTech, Paris (France)

– 2012- 2013: Member of the Nominating Committee for Division Members and Officers of the IUPAC

– 2010-2014: Nominated Member of the Scientific Committee of CNRS

– 2011-2015: Nominated Member of the Scientific Committee of ENSCP ParisTech

– 2012-2014: Nominated Member of the Scientific Committee of PSL*

– 2012- : Nominated Member of the Scientific Committee of CP2 UP (University of Poitiers, France)

– 2012- : Nominated Member of the Scientific Committee of the Max-Planck Institute in Mulheim (Germany)

– 2013-2015 : Member of the Program Committee 47th IUPAC WCC & 50th GA Paris 2019

– 2013- 2015: Member of the Committee for the award of the Société Chimique de France

– 2014- : Member of the Chem 21 (Manchester, UK)

– 2014- : Member of the Scientific Committee of the Chemistry Department of the Institut Pasteur in Paris (France)

– 2014- : Member of the Scientific Committee of PCAS (France)

– Since 2015: European Advisory Board Member of ECHONET

– 2016 : Chair of the BOSS XV, Antwerp (Belgium)

– 2016- : Member of the Scientific Committee of Novacap (France)

– 2017 : Nominated Member of the Scientific Committee, University of Groningen (The Netherland)

– 2017- 2023: Member of the Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis

– 2018 : Member of the Scientific Committee of DEMETA

– 2018 : Nominated Member of the Conseil d’Orientation Scientifique of Toulouse University (JP Vinel, President)

– 2018 : Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Conference Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Synthetic Biology, Noisy Le Grand (France)

– 2018 : Organizer of the Symposium « Organometallic Chemistry, COMET » ESPCI Paris, Paris

– 2018 : Nominated Chair of the Burgenstock for 2020 and postponed in 2022 (Switzerland)

– 2019 : Member of the the scientific committee Photoelectro, Manchester (UK)

– 2019 : Advisory board of director at NSJ Prayog life sciences Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad (India)

– 2019 : Co-organizer of the C7.2 session: Homogeneous catalysis, IUPAC, Paris, 2019

Consulting Activity

– 1995-2001: Rhône-Poulenc and then Rhodia (France)
– 2003-2005: Archemis (France)
– 1996-2003: L’Oréal (France)
– 2009-2013: Merck-Serono (Switzeland)
– 2011-2015: Servier

Editorial Activities and Advisory Boards

• Associate Editor
  • 1990-1997: Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France
  • 2005-2018: Organic Letters
  • 2009- : Arkivoc

• Editor of books
  • 2004:
    • SOS, Vol 26, Thieme
    • COFGT II, Vol 1, Elsevier
  • 2007: CHEC III, Vol 11, Elsevier
  • 2009: «Metathesis reactions: a milestone in natural product synthesis », Wiley
  • 2012:
    • «Modern tools for the synthesis of complex bioactive molecules» Wiley
    • Chirality, Volume title: Biological significance - Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical, Agrochemical Section: Drug Discovery(/MedChem), Elsevier
  • 2014:
    • «Oxygenated heterocyclic compounds», Vol 1, Springer
    • «Oxygenated heterocyclic compounds», Vol 2, Springer
  • 2016: Grignard reagents and transition metal catalysts. Formation of C-C bonds by cross-coupling, De Gruyter
  • 2018: CHEC IV, Elsevier in preparation
  • 2021: Comprehensive Chirality, Second Edition, Second Edition

Setting-up of two companies
– 2003: CDP-Innovation (with Dr J. R. Desmurs and Dr J. M. Paris)
– 2008: Acanthe-Biotech (with Dr Léna Edelman)