Career
- Pharmacist, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (1972)
- PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (1975)
- Postdoctoral researcher, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH), Switzerland (1976-1977)
- Supervisor, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (1978-1984)
- Professor of Pharmacotechnics and Biopharmacy, Université Paris-Sud, France (1984)
- Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2009-2014)
- Professor at Collège de France, Technological Innovation Chair (2009-2010)
Responsibilities
- Director of UMR CNRS 8612 (physical chemistry, pharmacotechnics and biopharmacy) (since 1997)
- Founder and Director of the "Therapeutic Innovation" doctoral school (1999-2006)
- Head of the "Médicament" theme (MEDICEN competitiveness cluster) (since 2005)
Research activities
Research at the interface between the physical chemistry of colloids, polymer chemistry, galenic pharmacy and experimental pharmacology, aimed at designing new drug delivery and vectorization systems ("Nanomedicines").
This work has been the subject of 367 international publications, 109 articles and book chapters, 50 patents, 192 invited lectures and the supervision of 59 doctoral theses. Editor of 7 books. H-index: 53/9,500 citations.
Promoting research
Creation of Bioalliance to develop doxorubicin-loaded polyalkylcyanoacrylate nanoparticles (Phase II/III clinical trial) (1997)
Creation of Medsqual, founded by P. Couvreur is the founder. Medsqual's aim is to bring to the clinic a number of nanomedicines derived from the "squalenization" process (2007)