Maité Sylla
Professor in bioorganic, organic, and medicinal chemistry at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts and the coordinator of the CAP’VR educational project on immersive learning
Maité Sylla is a Full Professor in bioorganic, organic, and medicinal chemistry at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts and the coordinator of the CAP’VR educational project on immersive learning. Since 2020, she has also held the position of Deputy Director of the ED SMI Doctoral School. She earned her Pharmacy degree from Universidad Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Cuba, where she worked as a lecturer and researcher from 1994 to 1998. After specializing in therapeutic chemistry and natural products at Universidad de La Habana, she completed a PhD at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, focusing on the development of quinoline-based antimalarial compounds. She later pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at Université Paris-Sud (now Paris-Saclay) before joining Cnam Paris in 2006. Her research focuses on medicinal chemistry, particularly the design and synthesis of heterocyclic molecules with antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anticancer properties, while integrating green chemistry principles. She has led multiple national and international collaborations and currently oversees two major research projects: TAPIOCA2 (INSERM), focused on photodynamic therapy, and OREGANO (ANR-PRC), which explores biocidal surfaces for the food industry.
