Biological properties of water-soluble phosphorhydrazone dendrimers

Anne-Marie Caminade is Director of Researches at the CNRS since 1997 ( f i rst c lass since 2004) and presently head of the "Dendrimers and Heterochemistry" group at LCC Toulouse. After two Ph.D.s (1984 and 1988) and two Post-docs (IFP-Paris and A. Von Humboldt fellow in Saarbrücken with M. Veith), she entered the CNRS in 1985. She developed several aspects of phosphorus chemistry, including low coordinated compounds, transition metals coordination, and macrocycles syntheses. Her current research interest is on the synthesis, reactivity, and applications of dendrimers in particular as catalysts, for nanomaterials and in biology. She is the co-author of more than 370 publications and 30 patents, and received in 2006 the Organic Chemistry Prize of the French Chemical Society.