Éric Biron

Research Interests

• Medicinal chemistry, Antimicrobial agents, Organic synthesis, Antimicrobial peptides, Peptide chemistry, Fused heterocycles, Peptidomimicry, Alternatives to antibiotics

Current Research Projects

• Synthesis, structure-activity studies, and biological evaluation of bacteriocins as alternatives to antibiotics
• Development and structure-activity studies of antimicrobial lipopeptides against Gram-negative bacteria
• Exploiting the iron addiction of bacteria: Design of new hybrid bacteriocin-siderophore molecules
• Valorization of natural triterpenes by derivatization for the development of new biosourced bioactive molecules

Tools and Expertises

• Peptide synthesis, Peptide labelling and derivatization, Structure-activity relationship studies
• Peptide synthesizer, Flash purification systems, Preparative HPLC, LC-MS