Philippe Barthélémy
Barthélémy received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Montpellier II, France in 1993. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University in the group of Pr Fredric Menger (Lavoisier Grant and Emory Fellowship). In 1995 he was appointed as a temporary lecturer at the University of Avignon and as Associate Professor at the same University in 1996. P. Barthélémy worked also as a Visiting Associate Professor at Duke University in 2001. In 2005 he was appointed as full Professor at the University of Bordeaux Segalen. He has been Director of the ChemBioPharm team (http://chembiopharm.fr) and the Vice President of the University of Bordeaux Segalen (2010-2013). He is currently the director of ARNA laboratory INSERM U1212/UMR CNRS 5320 (http://arna.cnrs.fr). Over the course of his tenure, Barthélémy’s research has yielded more than 170 peer-reviewed publications, more than 25 patents, and more than 100 oral invited conferences and oral presentations.
Field of expertise: RNAi therapeutics, Oligonucleotides, Chemistry of biomolecules, Drug Delivery
Education: PhD. in Chemistry in July 1993, University of Montpellier II, France. Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, (HDR) December 2002.


