Didier Rognan's Biography

Didier Rognan, Director of Research, University of Strasbourg

Didier Rognan heads the Laboratory of Structural Chemogenomics at Faculty of Pharmacy (UMR 7200) of Strasbourg (France). He studied Pharmacy at the University of Rennes (France) and did a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in Strasbourg (France) under the supervision of Prof. C.G. Wermuth. After a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Tübingen (Germany), he moved as an Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) until October 2000. He was then appointed Research Director at the CNRS to build a new group in Strasbourg. He is mainly interested in all aspects (method development, applications) of structure-based drug design, notably on G Protein-coupled Receptors. He recently developed and applied novel algorithms to compare at a large scale protein-ligand binding sites.