Cedric Lion

Cedric Lion is associate professor at the University of Lille since 2008, specializing in bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology. After receiving his M.Sc. at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées of Rouen (France) in 2001, he carried out his Ph.D. at the Cancer Research Laboratories (Pharmacy department, University of Nottingham, UK, 2001-2005), and then a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Biomolecular Sciences (University of Nottingham, UK, 2005-2007), followed by a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut de Recherche en Chimie Organique Fine (UMR CNRS 6014 – COBRA, Rouen, France, 2007-2008).
His current research interests include detailed studies of glycosylation pathways in physiological and pathological conditions and development of diagnostic methodologies, via chemical reporter strategies (e.g. metabolic incorporation of synthetic monosaccharides followed by click chemistry insertion of a fluorophore tag and confocal fluorescence microscopy imaging).