Sonia Cantel

Sonia Cantel obtained her PhD in 2004 in Chemistry of Biomolecules from the University of Montpellier, in the field of pseudo-peptide and solid phase organic synthesis. For the following two years as Post-doctoral Fellow in the Laboratory for Translational Research (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA), she actively participated to biomedicinal projects and developed extensive skills in analytical techniques applied to peptide and protein engineering. She joined in 2007 the IBMM, taking advantage of her multidisciplinary experience to develop new projects at the interface of Chemistry, Biology and Analytical Sciences.

She focuses her research on the development of chemical probes for specific and sensitive detection of peptides and proteins, and pharmacological studies (GPCR/ligand interaction) by MALDI Mass Spectrometry. Actively involved in peptide environment, she is currently at the directing board of the GFPP (French Group of peptides and proteins). She has published more than 50 research articles in SCI(E) journals h-index:16.