International Scientific Programme Committee

Josiane Geffroy-Cillard

She was graduated as Pharmacist at the Faculty of Pharmacy at Rennes and received her Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Rennes University. She is Professor in Cellular and Moleculard Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy at Rennes.

Her research interests are focused on the modulation of cellular oxidative stress by antioxidants and exercice.

She reported early (1976-1981) that α tocopherol at high concentrations in micelles caused a prooxidant effect which was suppressed by vitamin C. In 1986 she showed that flavonoïds are good scavengers of hydroxyl and peroxyl radicals and that they protect cells from iron toxicity by their ability to form complexes with intracellular free iron. These complexes are then released from the cells. She highlighted that myricetin was able to induce DNA-enzyme repair and to decrease oxidative DNA-base damage. Another research focus of Dr Cillard was to investigate the protective role of NO in iron and ethanol toxicity. Presently, Dr Cillard pursue her research on the modulation by exercise of oxidative stress associated with obesity and diabetes. She was a member of the SFRR-Europe committee from 1996 to 2000. She is the President of SFRR-France from 2003 until present. She was distinguished by the Oxygen Club of California as Life Time Honorary member and received the Science and Education Award. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of OCC. In France she was awarded by the Montgolfier Prize and the Chaptal Prize and she has been decorated by the French Republic as Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite.

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