Bernard Meunier

Bernard Meunier is currently Emeritus Director of Research at the "Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS", Toulouse and Distinguished Professor at the Chemistry Department of the Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, P. R. China (since 2012). He has been Associate Professor at the “École Polytechnique” ( 1993-2006), Professor at the "Collège de France", Paris, Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Chair (2014-2015), President of the French Academy of Sciences (2015-2016) and President of the CNRS (2004-2006).

Research activity domains (medicinal chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry).

Design and development of hybrid molecules as antimalarial or anti-schistosomiasis drugs and of new copper-specific chelating agents as potential therapeutic agents for Alzheimer’s disease and Wilson’s disease.