CV
Professional Experience
Oct 2019 : CNRS Research Officer
Mediterranean Institute of Terrestrial and Marine Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE, UMR 7263). Research group : Diversity and Functioning from Molecules to Ecosystems (DFME). Marseille, France.
Oct 2019 : Adjunct Faculty at UIC
Pharmacognosy Institute, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA.
Sep 2015/June 2019 : Research Assistant Professor
Center for Natural Product Technologies (CENAPT) and Institute for Tuberculosis Research (ITR) Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA.
Jan 2011/Sep 2015 : Post-doctoral Research Associate
UIC/NIH Botanical Center for Dietary Supplements, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA.
October 2007/2010 : PhD. in Pharmacognosy
CIFRE LVMH-research/Guerlain
Laboratory of Pharmacognosy and Bioactive Natural Substances, UMR-CNRS 7200, Faculty of Pharmacy, Strasbourg University, France.
2013/2018 : Lecturer for Undergraduate, Graduate and PharmD students
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), College of Pharmacy, USA
- What is Pharmacognosy nowadays
- Infectious diseases due to HACEK organisms
- Adsorption & Countercurrent Chromatography
Education and Trainings
2005/2006 : Master of Science degree on Natural Substances with Economical Interest
Strasbourg University, France.
2001/2006 : Doctor of Pharmacy degree
Faculty of Pharmacy, Strasbourg University, France
Distinction and Awards
2019 Seal of Excellence received by the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Project proposal : “Multi-omics approach and imaging techniques for the identification of sponge cells involved in the production and expulsion of bioactive metabolites towards the formation of the sponge exo-metabolome”
2010 FRC (Chemical Research Foundation) prize for scientific communications
“ Antioxidant phenanthrenes from Vanda coerulea stem inhibit PGE-2 production from epidermal keratinocytes”. Illkirch Campus Days (JCI).
2010 Student Poster Award
Simmler C, Bonté F, André P, Lobstein A. “ Antioxidant stilbenoids from stems of Vanda coerulea reduce PGE-2 production on irradiated HaCaT cells thanks to COX-2 inhibition” presented at the 51th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy and the Phytochemical Society of North America, St Petersburg, Florida
2005 Fellowship Grant and Awards from the Alsace region Boussole Initiative
Research project “Ethnobotanical inquiries led in the National Park of Ankarafantsika, Madagascar”.