Research in the Laboratory of Chemistry and Biology of Metals (CBM, Grenoble, France. https://www.cbm-lab.fr/en) focuses on the study of the structure, activity and regulation of complex biological systems that transport and use metal ions, and on the development of bio-inspired systems for applications in health, the environment and energy. The size of the Laboratory and the coherence of its research make it unique at both the national and international levels.

The pluri-disciplinary project, developed by a collaboration between two teams of the Lab BEE and BioCE, deals with in cristallo biocatalysis for a sustainable chemistry is still open. Our strategy for catalysis consists in the use of crystals of metalloenzymes to perform cascade reactions, that will impact the organic synthesis and the mode of drug synthesis.

Recruté en 2016 à l’Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay (UMR 8182), Wadih Ghattas travaille à la conception, la construction, la caractérisation et l’étude de l’activité catalytique de la première métalloenzyme artificielle in vivo, un domaine de recherche où des protéines sont détournées de leur fonction primaire pour en faire des catalyseurs de réaction abiologiques.