Couvez Justine

PhD candidate WP3-2

Institut des Sciences Moléculaires
Université de Bordeaux - CNRS UMR 5255
Bâtiment A12, 351 cours de la libération
33405 TALENCE cedex

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Career

Justine Couvez is a chemistry PhD student who obtained her Master’s research degree in organic chemistry and life sciences from Bordeaux University in 2022. During her master, she carried out two different internships focussing on catalysis (Pr. P.Y. Toullec) and multistep synthesis (Pr. T. Toupance).

She joined the Light on orgAnics, Glycans and Organic Nanoparticles team (LAGON/ISM) and Polymer self-assembly and life sciences team (LCPO), and the Imaging for Precision Medicine within a Collaborative Translational program (IMPACT) project in September 2022.

She is studying the delivery of anticancer drugs by light/temperature activation of new complex system monitored by magnetic resonance imaging. The goal of the current work is to design new smart systems for imaging-assisted therapy by encapsulating anticancer drugs in polymersomes in combination with strongly light-absorbing small organic nanoparticles. Light trigger will be used to induce a controlled jump in local temperature, triggering the release of the anticancer drug.