AHCENE BOUMENDJEL

Organic chemistry

Medicinal chemistry

Organic and medicinal chemistry

Coordinator of the Euorpean Erasmus Mundus programme "Be in Precision Medicine"

Ahcène BOUMENDJEL is a Professor of organic and medicinal chemistry at University Grenoble Alpes Grenoble. He earned his PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Reims in 1991. From 1991 to 1994 he was a NIH postdoctoral fellow working on chemistry and biochemistry of sphingolipids at National institutes of neurological disorders and stroke (NINDS), Bethesda/USA. From 1994 to 1995, he worked as a researcher associate in a private company (Procept, Inc) in Boston where was involved in the chemistry of peptidomimetics as anti-virals. In 1996, he joined the Pharmacy School of Université Grenoble Alpes as an assistant professor and in 2008 he became a full professor of organic and medicinal chemistry.

The research areas of Pr. BOUMENDJEL deal with medicinal chemistry of natural products with particular focus on anticancer and anti-infective agents derived natural products. Prof. Boumendjel has published over 150 international publications and he is the co-owner of 13 with three of them licensed to private companies.