In 2005, she discovered the function of an enzyme that played a role in bacterial resistance to antibiotics. At the beginning of her career, Claude Grison had opted for another path, chemistry of life, an interface between chemistry and biology.

Industrial collaborations have been developed with Chimex, a subsidiary of L'Oréal, and the Japanese company Takasago, while Stratoz, a young innovative company, will develop this promising sector.

From an anticancer drug derived from monastrol to cosmetic products, the applications are numerous. 'Our processes make it possible to produce useful molecules that are very complex to synthesize in any other way,' says the professor at the University of Montpellier-II. She is at the heart of an incredible environmental success story! Claude Grison, a 53-year-old chemist, is behind twelve CNRS patents that not only make it possible to use plants to gradually clean up mining sites, but also to exploit the metals that these plants have absorbed. Claude Grison has created four start-ups including Bio Inspir', on display on the CNRS stand at Vivatech in 2019, and has collaborated with chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies including Belgarena, Colas, Klorane and Chimex. Claude Grison, senior researcher at CNRS, director of the ChimlEco laboratory and winner of the CNRS innovation medal in 2014, received the European Inventor Award 2022 in the 'Research' category. She was rewarded for the plant-based approach and methods she developed to extract metal elements from polluted soil and use these 'ecocatalysts' to create new molecules for industry.

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