Chemical control of cell adaptation

Speaker: Raphaël Rodriguez

Venue: Lecture Hall, Floor 1, School of Medicine, Zijingang Campus

Abstract: Raphaël Rodriguez is a Research Director at the CNRS and a Principal Investigator at Institut Curie where he holds the Sklodowska-Curie Chair of Chemical Biology. He acquired the knowledge of chemistry and biology from several mentors in the United Kingdom. He leads the Biomedicine Laboratory at Institut Curie and investigates the molecular basis of cancer metastasis. Together with lab co-workers, they discovered the role of iron as a driver of cell adaptation and cell death. He has received a few accolades including the CNRS Silver Medal, the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences, the Klaus Grohe Prize, the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award and the Charles Defforey Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Knight of the National Order of Merit.