Isabelle Fournier

Prof. Fournier is Distinguished Professor at the University of Lille and co-director of the PRISM Inserm U1192 Lab. She also acts as Vice President for Doctoral Research at the University of Lille. She is a bioanalytical chemist specialized in clinical mass spectrometry and proteomics. She started research working on fundamental of MALDI during her PhD at University Pierre & Marie Curie and then, as a postdoctoral fellow within the group of Prof. Michael Karas in Frankfurt. In 2002, she established her own group at University of Lille where she started developing MALDI MS Imaging. She contributed to the field with several developments including new MALDI matrixes, novels strategies for unlocking the imaging of FFPE tissues and proteins, and the development of tagged probes for specific imaging of different targets including mRNA and proteins. In 2009, she was hired as Full Professor and awarded a Junior position at the french academy of excellence Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). Since 2012, she is interested by the development of Spatially Resolved Proteomics in combination to MALDI MSI for applications in oncology. Over the past 5 years, she also worked on the development of in vivo MS for guided surgery and intraoperative analysis. She confounded the Imabiotech Company (now Aliri Bioanalysis) which provides services in MALDI MSI and recently the Celeos startup for MS-based guided surgey. She was recently distinguished by the international distinguish award from MSACL and was awarded a senior position at IUF.