AWARDS

• 1999 : Young Researcher award from the French Society for
  Biomechanics 
• 2007 : Prix Jean-Marc Lhoste from the French Biophysical Society.
• 2007-2012 : Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) for the period 2007-2012
• 2010 : Laureate of the ERC Starting Grant 2010
  
  

EDITORIAL BOARDS

• 2008-2011 : Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Langmuir
• Since 2011 : Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Acta Biomaterialia
• Since 2011 : Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Colloids and Interface Science

RESPONSABILITIES

• 2007-2011: Member of the National French University Committee

CNU 64

• Since 2008: Member of the scientific council of the competitivity pole

TRIMATEC

• Since 2009 : Expert for OMNT (Observatory for Micro and Nanotechnologies, Nanomedicine)
• Since 2011 : Member of the LABEX CEMAM 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

MAIN RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. Physico-chemical and mechanical properties
2. Musculo-skeletal tissue engineering
3. Layer-by-layer films as drug delivery platform
   

PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Picart, C., Mutterer, J., Richert, L., Luo, Y., Prestwitch, G., D., Schaaf, P., Voegel, J-C., and Ph. Lavalle. Molecular basis for the explanation of exponential growth of polyelectrolyte multilayers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 99, 12531-12535, 2002.
2. Picart C, Elkaim R, Richert, L., Audoin F, Da Silva Cardoso, M., Schaaf, P., Voegel, J-C., Frisch, B. Primary osteoblasts adhesion onto RGD functionalized and cross-linked polyelectrolyte multilayer films. Adv Funct Mat. 15, 83-94, 2005.
3. Schneider, A., Francius, G., Obeid, R., Schwinté, P., Frisch, B., Schaaf, P., Voegel, J-C., Senger, B., and C. Picart. Polyelectrolyte multilayers with a tunable Young's modulus : influence of film stiffness on cell adhesion. Langmuir, 22(3): 1193-1200, 2006.
4. Ren, K., Crouzier, T., Roy, C., Picart, C. Polyelectrolyte multilayers of controlled stiffness modulate myoblast differentiation. Adv. Funct. Mat. 18, 1-12, 2008.
5. Carvalho, K., Ramos, L., Roy, C., Picart, C. Giant unilamellar vesicles containing phosphatidylinositol(4,5)bisphosphate : characterization and functionality. Biophys. J. 95(9):4348-60, 2008.
6. Crouzier, T., Ren, K., Nicolas, C., Roy, C., Picart. C. Layer-by-layer films as a biomimetic reservoir for rhBMP2 delivery : controlled differentiation of myoblasts to osteoblasts. Small, 5:598-608, 2009.
7. Boudou, T., Crouzier, T., Ren, K., Blin, G. and C. Picart. Multiple functionalities of polyelectrolyte multilayer films : new biomedical applications. Advanced Materials, 22:441-467, 2010.
8. Crouzier, T., Fourel, L., Boudou, T., Albiges-Rizo, C., and C. Picart. Presentation of BMP-2 from a soft biopolymeric film unveils its activity on cell adhesion and migration. Adv. Mat. 23:H111-H118, 2011.