Dulce Papy-Garcia (DPG) is currently Director of the French Research Unit “Glycobiology Cell and Tissue Repair and Regeneration” (Gly-CRRET), Scientific Director of the Glycomix Platform for structural and functional analysis of Glycans, and 1rst class Professor of Biochemistry and Glycosciences at the University Paris Est Créteil. After MS and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences/Glycosciences at Tokushima Bunri University she moved to Europe, where she worked as a research fellow at ENSCT (Fr) and at the Central Veterinary Laboratory at Weybridge (UK). She was permanently established in France by becoming Associated-Professor and then Full Professor at the University Paris Est Créteil. DPG is specialist in the chemistry, biochemistry, and physiology of proteoglycans, their biosynthetic machinery, and in the study of their implications in the molecular mechanisms leading to vulnerability to pathology. In her primary work, DPG implemented biomimetic strategies and methods assuring the robust synthesis and structural characterization of “Heparan sulfate mimetics” (HM), now in the clinical marked of regenerative medicine under the concept ‘Matrix Therapy’. Currently, DPG team work to demonstrate the key role of complex glycans in the mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration in pathologies that represent major societal challenges, as Alzheimer’s disease.
Creteil, France
Professor
University Paris Est Creteil
Laboratoire de Recherche sur la Croissance Cellulaire, la Réparation et la Régénération Tissulaires