Laboratory Department:Planning, implementation and assessment of scientific programmes to ensure the quality of medicines (laboratory studies to support the evaluation and definition of qualitative & quantitative characteristics of substances, preparation and methods).- Supervisory responsibility: 3-8 direct reports- Representation of the EDQM laboratory in Groups of Experts- Responsible for a portfolio of about 3000 reference standards (QC, monitoring, stability)Certification Department:Scientific assessment of applications for Certificates of suitability by gathering and analyzing information on manufacturing processes, quality & use of active pharmaceutical ingredients (taxoïds, alkaloids, fermentation products, hemisynthetic API...).

R & D manager- Purification of Active Pharmaceutical & Cosmetic Ingredients- Process engineering for natural and synthetic APIs- Industrial Centrifugal Partition Chromatography- Supervisory responsibility: 5 direct reports

- Analytical& Pharmaceutical Development :Optimization and validation studies of analytical methods for starting materials, intermediates and finished products, stability studies- Supervisory responsibility: 10-15 direct reports

Department of Pharmacognosy:- Research & teaching activities :Natural products chemistry (separation methods - structural determination - biological screening)Supervision of research projects for graduate and undergraduate collaboratorsTeaching of practical works in phytochemistry to Pharmacy students