Raphaël Rodriguez is a Research Director at the CNRS and a Principal Investigator at Institut Curie where he holds the Skłodowska-Curie Chair of Chemical Biology. He acquired the knowledge of chemistry and biology in the United Kingdom under the mentorships of Sirs J. E. Baldwin, S. Balasubramanian and S. P. Jackson (2004-2012). He then established his lab in France to investigate the molecular bases of cancer metastasis and inflammation. He discovered the central role of metals as regulators of cell identity and elucidated basic cellular mechanisms of ferroptosis. Rodriguez has received a Knighthood of the National Order of Merit from Jean-Marie Lehn and a few accolades including the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences and the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry.

Seminar topic: Chemical control of cell identity