Professor at the Université de Montréal, I have been actively
investigating solution-phase and solid-phase synthesis of
heterocycles, amino acids, peptides, peptide mimics and the
preparation of their libraries by combinatorial science. My
interests lie both in developing new methodology for effectively
synthesizing these novel structures for drug discovery, as well as
in their use to explore protein folding, molecular recognition and
bioorganic catalysis.
Since 2000, this research has received and we gratefully acknowledge
support from the National Science and Engineering Research Council
of Canada, the Medical Research Council of Canada, the Ministry of
Education of Québec, Novo Nordisk Denmark, Merck Frosst Inc.,
ConjuChem Inc., Gemin-X Inc., BioAxone Inc. and Pharma-G Inc.
Montréal, Valorisation-Recherche Québec and the Canadian Foundation
for Innovation.