Chemistry International
Vol. 21, No. 4
July 1999
40th
IUPAC Council Meeting
Free University,
Berlin, Germany,
13-14 August 1999
Election
of Officers and Bureau Members: Bureau
President
Vice President
Past-President
Secretary General
TreasurerVacancy
BureauFour Vacancies (Minimum)
..Prof. S. Chandrasekaran
..Prof. Pavel Kratochvil
..Prof. G. Jeffrey Leigh
.. Prof. Nicole J. Moreau
..Prof. Oleg M. Nefedov
..Prof. Hitoshi Ohtaki
..Prof. Gerhard M. Schneider
..Prof. Pieter S. Steyn
Prof. Nicole J. Moreau (France)
Prof. Nicole J. Moreau |
Prof. Nicole Jeanne Moreau was born on 3 July 1941 in Perpignan,
France. She is married with 2 children.
Education and Career: Prof. Moreau studied mathematics,
physics, and chemistry (1958-61) at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where
she received her bachelor's degree in physical sciences and, subsequently,
an M.S. in physical chemistry in 1961. She began work as a research scientist
in the chemistry laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique in 1961, and she obtained
a doctorate in physical sciences (chemistry distinction) in 1967 from Orsay
University, where the laboratory had been transferred and where she remained
until 1971. Her thesis concerned synthesis of di- and triterpenes using NMR
and mass spectroscopic approaches; she then moved to monosaccharide chemistry.
In 1972, she joined the chemistry laboratory of Prof. Le Goffic at Ecole Normale
Supérieure in Paris, where she worked until 1993. In 1973, she was a postdoctoral
fellow in the laboratory of Dr. J. S. Pitton at the Medical Microbiology Institute
in Geneva, Switzerland. Prof. Moreau began service with the Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 1962 and was successively appointed
Attaché de Recherche (1963-67), Chargé de Recherche (1968-78), Directeur de
Recherche (1979-92), and Full Professor at University Paris 6 (Pierre and
Marie Curie), where she has served since 1993. She has held an appointment
as Professor at the Laboratory of Molecular Research on Antibiotics, University
Paris 6, since 1994.
Research Interests: Prof. Moreau successfully designed
the first purification, using affinity chromatography, of enzymes that inactivate
aminoglycoside antibiotics. Her research is at the interface of chemistry
and life sciences, and she continues to study the mode of action of antibiotics
and the way bacteria can resist them.
Offices and Assignments: Member of French Chemical Society
(1963-present); Chargé de Mission, Ministere de la RechercheAdjoint
du chef du département "Médicaments" (1984-89); Member
of French Microbiology Society (1987-present); Secretary (1989-97) and President
(1997-1999) of EUCHEM (European Chemistry); President of GESA (Study Group
of Structure-Activity Relationships, 1990); Member of French Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology Society (1991-present); Chargé de Mission, Department
of Chemical SciencesCNRS (1993-1997); Secretary of the Maison de la
Chimie Foundation International Prize (1994-present); Directeur Scientifique
Adjoint, Department of Chemical SciencesCNRS (1998-present).
IUPAC Activities: Prof. Moreau has served as vice president
of the French National Committee for Chemistry (IUPAC NAO) since 1994 and
as a member of the French National Committee of Chemistry Delegation at IUPAC
since 1995.
Awards: Prof. Moreau was awarded the Prix de l'Académie
de Pharmacie, Paris, in 1974.