Janine Cossy facts for kids
Janine Cossy (born in 1950) is a famous French chemist. She is known for making special chemical products that are active in living things, like medicines. She is also a retired professor of organic chemistry at ESPCI Paris, a well-known science school in France.
About Janine Cossy's Life and Work
Janine Cossy studied chemistry and earned her highest degree, a doctorate, from the University of Reims in France. After that, she went to the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the United States to do more advanced research with Professor Barry Trost.
In 1990, Janine Cossy became a professor at ESPCI ParisTech. Her main work involves creating natural products that are important for health. These include things like medicines to fight cancer, antibiotics that kill germs, and products that help with swelling or affect the brain and nervous system. She also studied special chemical reactions, like those involving "free radicals" and reactions caused by light (called photochemical reactions).
Besides her teaching and research, Janine Cossy also worked as an advisor for big companies like Rhône-Poulenc, Rhodia, and L'Oréal. She also helped start two companies, Acanthe Biotech and CDP Innovation.
Awards and Recognitions
Janine Cossy has received many important awards and honors for her work in chemistry. Here are some of them:
- From 2002 to 2006, she was the President of the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society. She also led the Franco-Japanese Chemical Society.
- In 1996, she won the Jungfleish Prize from the Academy of Sciences.
- Also in 1996, she was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal, which is a big honor from France's National Center for Scientific Research.
- In 2009, she received the Grand Prix Achille Le Bel from the French Chemical Society.
- She was made a Knight of the National Order of Merit in 1997.
- She also won several awards from big medicine companies, including Novartis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly and Company, Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, and Bristol-Myers-Squibb.
- In 2013, she was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour, which is one of France's highest awards.
Janine Cossy is also part of several important science groups. She is a member of IUPAC, which sets rules for chemistry worldwide. She was also on the steering committee for the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Foundation for Research and on the scientific council of CNRS from 2010 to 2014. She has also helped edit several science magazines, such as Organic Letters, New Journal of Chemistry, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, and the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Books and Publications
Janine Cossy has also written or co-written several scientific books:
- Carbon with No Attached Heteroatoms (published by Elsevier Science, 2005)
- Comprehensive organic functional group transformations (published by Elsevier Science, 2005)
See also
In Spanish: Janine Cossy para niños
