Dr. Alain Fournier received, from the Université de Sherbrooke, a B.Sc. degree in chemistry-biochemistry, a M. Sc. degree in pharmacology, and a Ph. D. degree in bio-organic chemistry. After post-doctoral studies at the Health Sciences Centre of the University of Calgary and the Roche Research Centre in Nutley, New-Jersey, he has become in 1987 assistant professor at INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier. He was successively Chercheur-boursier Junior and Senior from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec, as well as Chercheur National from this organization. He was also for many years an affiliated professor at the Department of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Sherbrooke, and at the Department of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal.

His multidisciplinary background in chemistry, pharmacology and biochemistry allows Dr. Fournier to carry out research programs involving peptide synthesis, structural analysis using theoretical calculations and spectroscopic techniques, as well as pharmacological and biochemical evaluations.

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