News

May 2025 Philippe Compain launches his brand-new book (in French): L’Art du combat en laboratoire (Editions Hermann)! This book portrays basic research as a combat sport! For more informations, click here
April 2025 A new doctor at SYBIO! Congratulations to Dr Natalia Kiprova!
May 2024 Mylène Lang has received the B. Fournet-A. Verbert Award. Congratulations Mylène !
May 2024 Jean-Pierre Sauvage’s masterclass at GFG2024 (link to press article).

May 2024 SYBIO has actively organized GFG2024 in Obernai, France (organizing committee picture).
October-November 2023 From October to November 2023 three brand new doctors at SYBIO: Congratulations to Haijuan Liu, Mylène Lang and Adrien Laporte.
March 2022 A brand new doctor at SYBIO! Congratulations to Marine Desnoyers and thanks to the PhD jury defense.
October 2021 Congratulations to Yan who become Dr Yan Liang.
April 2021 A brand new doctor at SYBIO! Congratulations to Damien Tardieu and thanks to the PhD jury defense.

October 2020 A warm welcome to Mylène Lang and Adrien Laporte who begin their PhD thesis in our group.
October 2019 A warm welcome to Haijuan Liu (Hunan University, China) who starts her PhD thesis in our laboratory.
July 2019 Congratulations to Damien for his habilitation (HDR) defense.
January-February 2019 A warm welcome to Arthur Klufts (M2) and Léna Godec (M1) who have joined us for a research training period.
June 2018 Nicolas Kern has successfully passed the entrance competition to CNRS! A future “chargé de recherche” for the SYBIO group!
February 2018 A warm welcome to Juliane Chaud and Marine Desnoyers who have joined our lab as MSc (M2) Students.
October 2017 Two in a row! A warm welcome to Yan Liang (Zhengzhou, China) and Damien Tardieu (Montpellier, France) who start their PhD thesis in our laboratory.
May 2017 Congratulations to Maëva Pichon : first oral presentation and first oral award at SCF Grand Est 8!
March 2017 Our review in Org. Biomol. Chem. concerning square sugars was selected as 2017 Hot Articles (Org. Biomol. Chem. 2017, 15, 3806) .
February 2017 Congratulations to Dr. Jérémy Schneider who brightly defended his PhD!
December 2016 Congratulations to Dr. Raphaël Hensienne who successfully defended his PhD!
October 2016 A warm welcome to Maciej Malinowski, a PhD student from Warsaw University of Technology who join our lab for a 6-month internship.
September 2016 Congratulations to Maëva Pichon : first poster presentation and first award at JCO 2016 !
One oral communication, five posters and one award (best poster) at JCO 2016 in Palaiseau (France)!
March 2016 SYBIO is on Twitter @compaingroup! .
March 2016 A warm welcome to Sébastien Garnier and Priscilla Martin who have joined our lab as MSc (M1) Students.
February 2016 A warm welcome to Maria F. Cespedes Davila, who join our lab as a MSc Student.
November 2015 Congratulations to Dr. Fabien Stauffert who brightly defended his PhD!
September 2015 Our new article in Org. Biomol. Chem. concerning the synthesis of a new class of glycomimetics was selected for a cover and as 2015 Hot Articles (Org. Biomol. Chem. 2015, 13, 9176) .
Mars 2015 Welcome to Robin Weiss (M1, University of Strasbourg) who joins our group for a 10-week training in Organic Synthesis.
February 2015 A warm welcome to Sandra Collado, Eugénie Laigre and Maëva Pichon who join our lab as MSc Students.
January 2015 According to the Thomson Reuters Web of Science,our paper "Second-Generation Iminoxylitol-Based Pharmacological Chaperones for the Treatment of Gaucher Disease” (DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201000469) was among the top 10 most cited articles published by ChemMedChem in 2011.
October 2014 Congratulations to Dr Mathieu Lepage who successfully defended his PhD!
September 2014 Welcome to Luis Guillermo Moya Addante (University of Valencia) who joins our group for 10 months as an Erasmus student.
March 2014 Welcome to Najet El Harmouchi (M1, University of Strasbourg) who joins our group for a 10-week training in Organic Synthesis.
February 2014 A warm welcome to Hélène Ledru (Orléans University) and Manon Ripoll (ECPM), who join our lab as MSc Students. Jérémy Schneider begins his PhD, working on multivalent glycomimetics.
October 2013 Congratulations to Dr. Pierre-Antoine Nocquet who brilliantly defended his PhD! He will soon join the group of Pr Opatz at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany) for a post-doctoral position.
Dr. Camille Decroocq has been awarded for her PhD work the 2013 KEPLER Prize (Saint-Thomas foundation). It is not yet the Nobel Prize but it is a good start for a talented young chemist! (To see more.)
A warm welcome to Raphaël Hensienne who starts a PhD thesis in our laboratory. Raphaël has been awarded a PhD fellowship from the French department of research. He has recently completed a Master 2 (MSc) degree at the University of Nancy (France) on glycochemistry.
Alessandra Meli from the laboratory of Pr. Irene Izzo (University of Salerno, Italia) was among us for two (too) short weeks. Multivalent iminosugars based on new scaffolds were synthesized on the occasion in collaboration with Mathieu Lepage.
September 2013 Our article in ChemBioChem concerning the description of submicromolar correctors of mutant CFTR, the protein involved in cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis) was selected for a cover (ChemBioChem 2013, 14, 2050).
One oral communication and seven posters were presented to the JCO 2013 in Palaiseau (France). Congratulations to all authors and to Mathieu Lepage for his nice talk on the synthesis of α-glycosyl azides by ring opening of 1,6-anhydrosugars.

July 2013 A big congratulations to our post-docs! Dr Joanna Wencel-Delord has obtained a permanent position at the CNRS as "Chargée de Recherche" and Dr Antoine Joosten will become "Maître de conférences" at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (National Institute of Applied Sciences - INSA) in Rouen!
June 2013 Welcome to Tian Zeng who joins our group for a 6-weeks training in organic chemistry. Tian has joined ECPM in September 2012 within the framework of the Sino-French program in Chemical Sciences and Engineering. Before coming to France, Tian was studying chemistry at the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shangai.
April 2013 A warm welcome to Eric Wimmer who joins our group as a MSc student (M2).
November 2012 A warm welcome to Ronan Feneux. Ronan is professor at the University of Strasbourg (PRAG). He has obtained a French "aggregation" in Chemistry in 2000 and a MSc in didactics of chemical and sciences in 2011. He is beginning a PhD thesis in the field of didactics on a subject dealing with reaction mechanisms in Organic Chemistry.
October 2012 Congratulations to Dr Camille Decroocq who successfully defended her PhD! This was the first PhD defense for the SYBIO lab in Strasbourg!
A warm welcome to Jérémy Schneider who joins our group as a MSc student (M2). Jérémy is a 3^rd dan black belt kendo.
September 2012 A warm welcome to Dr Joanna Wencel-Delord who joins our group as an assistant lecturer (ATER). Joanna has previously worked in the groups of Pr. F. Glorius and Dr. M. Mauduit. Joanna is an expert in C-H activation and asymmetric catalysis. She is co-author of a review that has been cited 130 times in 2012 (Towards mild-catalyzed C-H bond activation, Chem. Soc Rev. 2011, 9, 4740.)!
March 2012 A warm welcome to Dr Antoine Joosten who joins our group as a post-doctoral fellow. Antoine has a broad expertise in organic chemistry from synthetic methodologies to rotaxane synthesis. He has previously worked in the groups of Pr. J.-E. Bäckvall, Pr. J.-P. Sauvage and Pr. J. Szymoniak. In 2010, Antoine was awarded the Organic Chemistry Division Prize (French Chemical Society) for his PhD research.
May 2011 A warm welcome to Dr. Anne Bodlenner who joins our group. Anne is Maître de Conférences at the University of Strasbourg since 2008. She has a broad expertise in organic and bioorganic chemistry, going from natural products of biological interest to biocatalysis.
December 2010 After 2 years, Dr. David Rodriguez-Lucena goes back to spain as a CSIC junior researcher. David has been the first researcher in the lab at the beginning of SYBIO in january 2009
October 2010 Phillipe Compain is made junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (to see more)
July 2010 Congratulations to Damien Hazelard who has obtained a permanent position at the University of Strasbourg as "Maître de conférences"!
Going back to Spain! David Rodriguez-Lucena has been awarded a 3-year fellowship from CSIC as junior researcher (JAEDoc program - starting from January 2011)
Congratulations to Pierre-Antoine Nocquet who has been awarded a PhD fellowship from the French department of research!
June 2010 First Congress and first award! Congratulations to Camille Decroocq for the best oral communication award obtained at SCF Grand Est "Synthèse et Evaluation Biologique d'Iminosucres Mutivalents Inédits: Vers de Super-iminosucres?" C. DECROOCQ, J. IEHL, M. HOLLER, D. HAZELARD, T. MENA BARRAGÁN, C. ORTIZ MELLET, J.-F. NIERENGARTEN, P. COMPAIN, SCF Grand Est, 20-21 mai 2010
Our communication devoted to multivalent iminosugars has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie! Congratulations to all co-authors: Glycosidase Inhibition with Fullerene Iminosugar Ball: a Dramatic Multivalent Effect P. COMPAIN, C. DECROOCQ, J. IEHL, M. HOLLER, D. HAZELARD, T. MENA BARRAGÁN, C. ORTIZ MELLET, J.-F. NIERENGARTEN, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 5753-5756.
May 2010 The brand new automatic flash chromatography system is arrived!!
February 2010 Congratulations to Pierre-Antoine Nocquet who received the Novartis 2010 grant "for master degree internships in schools of the federation Gay-Lussac" (To see more)