Jean-Robert Ioset is a pharmacist from training with
a PhD in Plant Chemistry (University of Lausanne,
Prof K. Hostettmann). He eventually specialized through
a postdoctoral fellowship at the London School of
Hygiene (Prof S. Croft) and Tropical Medicine in antiparasitic
chemotherapy as well as in Public Health related to
Tropical Medicine (DTMPH, Humboldt University, Berlin).
He currently works for the Drug for Neglected Diseases
initiative (DNDi), a non-for-profit organization that
aims to develop new treatments for the most neglected
parasitic diseases such as leishmaniasis, sleeping
sickness and Chagas. Jean-Robert is also active in
the field of malaria: he has collaborated to the development
and validation of two field-friendly assays for the
detection of counterfeit artemisinin-containing antimalarial
drugs (Gates for Malaria Partnership, LSHTM, UK patent
pending), participates different studies aiming to
identify new antimalarial lead compounds from plants
(University of Geneva, Prof K. Hostettmann).
He has also been involved in the development of methods
for the comparison of GM/nGM organisms as well for
the detection of toxic substances in plants. In such
research contexts, Jean-Robert is particularly interested
in investigating innovative methodological approaches
to reach his goals.
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