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Jean-alain Fehrentz

Jean-alain Fehrentz PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Research and Clinical Research
Montpellier, Occitanie, France

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Jean-Alain Fehrentz received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Nancy in 1983 and joined the "CNRS-INSERM Center for Pharmacology Endocrinology" in Montpellier, France in Professor Bertrand Castro's group, where his research was focused on the renin-angiotensin system. From 1989 to 1992, he was appointed as a researcher in Sanofi Research and then moved to the School of Pharmacy of Montpellier under the direction of Professor Jean Martinez.

He is currently holding a CNRS Research Director position at the Institute of Biomolecular Max Mousseron (IBMM, UMR 5247). His research interests are: -Synthesis of peptides, peptide aldehydes, pseudo-peptides and peptidomimetics, -High-throughput chemistry, building blocks for combinatorial chemistry, new linkers, -RCPG ligands and more precisely ghrelin and bombesin receptors.

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