50 years old

CNRS Research Director

CEISAM, UMR CNRS 6230

UFR Sciences et Techniques, 2 Rue de la Houssinière,

BP 92208, 44322 Nantes Cedex 03, France

e-mail: bruno.bujoli@univ-nantes.fr

Diploma

Chemist-engineer diploma from the National Institute of Industrial Chemistry of Rouen (France), 1982

Doctor-engineer diploma (a PhD thesis for engineers) from the University of Nantes, entitled "Regioselectivity of the chemical and electrochemical reductions of 6H-1,3-thiazines", 1985.

PhD thesis diploma from the University of Nantes, entitled. "Chemical Reactivity of the layered FeOCl : possibilities and limits", 1990

Successive positions

CNRS Charge de Recherche position (the equivalent of assistant professor) at Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique (University of Nantes), 1986-2000.

CNRS Directeur de Recherche position (the equivalent of full professor) at Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique [LSO] (University of Nantes), 2000-present.

Director of LSO(UMR6513 CNRS University of Nantes), 2004-2007

Director of CEISAM (UMR6230 CNRS University of Nantes), 2008-present

Scientific production / awards

85 Articles in peer reviewed journals (h = 25) and 5 patents

Médaille de bronze (Brass Medal) du CNRS 1995

Current research interest

The research group of Dr Bruno Bujoli has an activity which is focused on Functional hybrid materials’ engineering. In particular, this research team has an international expertise in the field of organic-inorganic materials applied to biotechnologies (DNA and protein microarrays) and biomaterials, and has designed a series of original concepts related to drug-device combinations, which have been patented and licensed to companies in the area of ‘biomaterials for orthopedics’. In this context, Dr Bruno Bujoli acts as assistant of the coordinator of the evaluation panel for the Health Science Area in the “Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering” sub-area (2007, 2009, 2010 and upcoming 2011), for FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology).

5 selected recent publications

-Josse, S., C. Faucheux, et al. (2005). "Novel biomaterials for bisphosphonate delivery." Biomaterials 26(14): 2073-2080.

-Monot, J., M. Petit, et al. (2008). "Towards zirconium phosphonate-based microarrays for probing DNA-protein interactions: Critical influence of the location of the probe anchoring groups." Journal Of The American Chemical Society 130(19): 6243-6251.

-Pioletti, D. P., O. Gauthier, et al. (2008). "Orthopedic implants used as drug delivery systems: clinical situation and state of the research." Current Drug Delivery 5: 59-63.

-Roussiere, H., F. Fayon, et al. (2008). "Reaction of zoledronate with beta-tricalcium phosphate for the design of potential drug device combined systems." Chemistry Of Materials 20(1): 182-191.

-Cinier, M., M. Petit, et al. (2009). "Bisphosphonate Adaptors for Specific Protein Binding on Zirconium Phosphonate-based Microarrays." Bioconjugate Chemistry 20: 2270-2277.