CV Science

Nelly Frossard PharmD, PhD Airway Pharmacology, Inserm Research Director

Course and current status

Co-head team 1 "Integrative Chemical Biology", UMR 7200 CNRS / Strasbourg University (M. Hibert), Laboratory of Excellence Medalis, Strasbourg University, 2009-

Head of Research unit, EA3771, Inflammation and environment in asthma, Strasbourg University, 2003-2009

Head of Research unit, Inserm U425, Pulmonary Neuroimmunopharmacology, 1995-2002

Inserm research director, Respiratory Physiology lab (A. Lockhart), UFR Cochin Port-Royal, University Paris Descartes, 1992-1993

Inserm researcher, Respiratory Physiology lab (A. Lockhart), UFR Cochin Port-Royal, University Paris Descartes, 1987-1992

Post-doctoral fellow, exchange fellowship Inserm-Medical Research Council, Clinical Pharmacology (P.J. Barnes), Cardiothoracic Institute, Brompton Hospital, London, UK, 1986-87

Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Strasbourg University, 1981-86

Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Allergopharmacology lab (Y. Landry), Strasbourg University, 1979-81

Master in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Respiratory Allergology lab (G. Pauli), University Hospital Strasbourg, 1977-79

Pharm. D., Strasbourg University, 1977

Scientific summary

Nelly Frossard is an expert in the field of airway inflammation and pharmacology, mainly interested in chemokines and their role in the attraction of immune and inflammatory cells in the airways in asthma and chronic obstructive respiratory disease as well as in lung transplantation. Her interest recently focuses on neutralizing the chemokines by small chemicals, the “neutraligands”, thereby allowing to study the mechanism and adaptation of the inflamed airways toward a normal response.