Charette Group

    ANDRÉ B. CHARETTE, Ph.D.

    Full Professor
    Department of Chemistry, Univ. de Montréal

    NSERC/Merck Frosst/Boehringer Ingelheim
    Industrial Chair in Stereoselective Drug Synthesis

    Canada Research Chair in Stereoselective
    Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules

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CONTACT INFORMATION

(Mailing Address)
Prof. André B. Charette
Department of Chemisty
Université de Montréal
P.O. Box 6128, Station Downtown
Montréal, QC H3C 3J7

(Courier Address)
Prof. André B. Charette
Department of Chemisty
Université de Montréal
2900 Édouard Montpetit Blvd.
Roger Gaudry Building, Office D-633
Montréal, QC H3T 1J4

Phone: (514) 343-6283
Fax: (514) 343-5900
E-mail: andre.charette@umontreal.ca

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EDUCATION

1987-1989 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

With Prof. David A. Evans

1987 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Rochester

With Prof. Robert K. Boeckman Jr.

1985 M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Rochester

With Prof. Robert K. Boeckman Jr.

1983 B.Sc. in Chemistry, Université de Montréal

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Canada Research Chair Holder
Université de Montréal, 2005-

NSERC/Merck Frosst/Boehringer Ingelheim Industrial Chair Holder
Université de Montréal, 2000-

Full Professor (Professeur titulaire)
Université de Montréal, 1998-

Associate Professor (Professeur agrégé)
Université de Montréal, 1994-1997

Assistant Professor (University Research Fellow, NSERC)
Université de Montréal, 1992-1994

Assistant Professor (University Research Fellow, NSERC)
Université Laval, 1989-1992

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INVITED PROFESSORSHIP

Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, May, 2005
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Apr., 2001
Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China, Oct., 2000

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MEMBERSHIP

Royal Society of Canada (RSC), 2007-
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995-
Ordre des Chimistes du Québec, 1990-
American Chemical Society, 1984-
Canadian Society for Chemistry, 1984-

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HONORS AND AWARDS

2007                ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
2007                Fellow of the RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities
                         and Sciences of Canada
2006                ACFAS Urgel Archambault Award
2006                CSC R. U. Lemieux Award
2003                CSC Award, Enantioselective Synthetic Chemistry Grant
2002                Royal Society of Canada Rutherford Memorial Medal
2002                CIAR PRix: Canada's Top 20 Researchers Aged <40
2000-2002      NSERC Steacie Fellow
1999                Astra Pharma Award RFP
1998                Chemical Institute of Canada Fellow
1998-1999      Merck Chemistry Council Development Award (USA)
1998                Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research Award
1996-1998      Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (USA)
1994-1996      Eli Lilly Grantee Award (USA)
1991-1993      Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award
1992-1997      NSERC University Research Fellow, Univ. de Montréal
1989-1992      NSERC Research Fellow, Univ. Laval
1987-1989      NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Univ.
1983-1987      Sherman Clarke Fellow, Univ. Rochester

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REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

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BOOK CHAPTERS

Contributor to Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis; Paquette, L. A.; Wipf, P. (Eds.-in-chief); Wiley: Chichester, 2008 (1 reagent),2005 (1 reagent), 2004 (1 reagent), 2003 (3 reagents), 2002 (3 reagents), 2001 (1 reagent), 1994. (11 reagents).

Charette, A. B. "Cyclopropanation mediated by zinc organometallics." In The Chemistry of Organozinc Compounds (Patai Series); Rappoport, Z.; Marek, I. (Eds.); Wiley: Chichester, 2006; Vol. 1, pp 237-286.

Charette, AB; Beauchemin, A. "Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation reaction." In Organic Reactions; Overman, L. E. (Ed.); Wiley: Chichester, 2001; Vol. 58, pp 3-65.

Charette, A. B., Molinaro, C. "Enantioselective cyclopropanation using dioxaborolane ligands." In ACS Symposium on Recent Advances in Organic Synthesis Via Boranes; Ramachandran, P. V.; Brown, H. C. (Eds.); ACS Books: Clarendon Hills, IL, 2000; Vol. 783, pp 136-147.

Charette, A. B.; Lebel, H. "Cyclopropanation and C-H insertion: other catalysts." In Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis; Jacobsen, EN; Pfaltz, A.; Yamamoto, H. (Eds.); Springer-Verlag: New York, 1999; Vol. II, pp 581-603.

Charette, A. B. "Cyclopropanation mediated by zinc organometallics." In Organozinc Reagents: A Practical Approach; Knochel, P.; Jones, P. (Eds.); Oxford University Press: New York, 1999; pp 263-285.

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PATENTS AND PATENT APPLICATIONS

Charette, A. B.; Côté, A. "METHODS FOR PREPARING DIORGANOZINC COMPOUNDS" US 60/916,419 filed on May 7, 2007.

Charette, A. B.; Poupon, J.-C.; Boezio, A. A. "PHOSPHONIUM SALT DERIVATIVES AND THEIR USE AS SOLUBILITY CONTROLLING AUXILIARIES" US 60/560,592 filed on April 9, 2004; and WO 2005/097812 filed on April 6, 2005.

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REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Over the years, the group members have presented various talks or posters during national and international conferences. Below are the names and dates of all conference proceedings attended to this date.

2007 18^th QOMSBOC, Montreal, QC, Nov. 9-11

234^th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, Aug. 19-23

OMCOS-14, Nara, JapanAug. 2-6

90^th CSC Conference, Winnipeg, MB, May 26-30

2006 17^th QOMSBOC, London, ON, Nov. 3-5

232^th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Sep. 10-14

Gordon Research Conference, Newport, RI, Jun. 18-23

89^th CSC Conference, Halifax, NS, May 27-31

74^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, QC, May 15-19

3^e Symposium des étudiants de chimie, Montréal, QC, Mar. 21

2005 Pacifichem 2005, Honolulu, HI, Dec. 15-20

16^th QOMSBOC, St-Adèle, QC, Nov. 11-13

230^th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, Aug. 28-Sep. 1

88^th CSC Conference, Saskatoon, SK, May 28-Jun. 1

4^e symposium SISOUM, Montréal, QC, Apr. 28-29

ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, Mar. 13-17

Informex 2005, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 17-20

2004 15^th QOMSBOC, Ottawa, ON, Nov. 5-7

NERM 2004 Symposium, Rochester, NY, Nov. 1-2

228^th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 22-26

Bayer Workshop, New Haven, CT, Jun. 11-13

FACS X, Charleston, SC, Jun. 6-10

87^th CSC Conference, London, ON, May 29-Jun. 1

72^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, QC, May 10-14

227^th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Mar. 28-Apr. 1

2003 14^th QOMSBOC, Montréal, QC, Dec. 5-7

NERM 2004 Symposium, Rochester, NY, Nov. 1-2

86^th CSC Conference, Ottawa, ON, Aug. 10-15

OMCOS-12, Toronto, ON, Jul. 6-10

225^th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Mar. 22-27

2002 85^th CSC Conference, Vancouver, BC, Jun. 1-6

70^e congrès de L'ACFAS, Québec, QC, May 13-17

3^e symposium SISOUM, Montréal, QC, May 2-4

223^rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, Apr. 7-11

2001 12^th QOMSBOC, Orford, QC, Nov. 9-11

84^th CSC Conference, Montréal, QC, May 26-30

69^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Sherbrooke, QC, May 14-17

2000 Pacifichem 2000, Honolulu, HI, Dec. 14-19

11^th QOMSBOC, Toronto, ON, Nov. 10-12

13^e Entretiens Jacques Cartier, Montréal, QC, Oct. 3-6

220^th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, Aug. 20-24

83^rd CSC Conference, Calgary, AB, May 27-31

68^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, QC, May 15-19

219^th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Mar. 26-30

1999 218^th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Aug. 22-25

82^nd CSC Conference, Toronto, ON, May 30-Jun. 2

67^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Ottawa, ON, May 10-14

217^th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Mar. 21-25

1997 80^th CSC Conference, Windsor, ON, Jun. 1-4

65^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Trois-Rivières, QC, May 12-16

213^th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Apr. 13-17

1996 212^th ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, Aug. 25-29

64^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, QC, May 13-17

1995 6^th QOMSBOC, Montréal, QC, Oct. 28-29

210^th ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, Aug. 20-24

78^th CSC Conference, Guelph, ON, May 28-Jun. 1

63^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Chicoutimi, QC, May 22-26

1994 5^th QOMSBOC, Toronto, ON, Oct. 30-31

62^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, QC, May 16-20

1993 4^th QOMSBOC, Ottawa, ON, Oct. 30-31

4^th Symposium, Montréal, QC, Sep. 19-22

8^th European Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 2

61^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Rimouski, QC, May 17-21

1992 60^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, QC, May 11-15

203^rd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Apr. 6

1991 2^nd Québec-Ontario Minisymposium, Montréal, QC, Oct. 25

6^th IUPAC Symposium, Utrecht, Netherlands, Aug. 26

59^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Québec, QC, May 14-18

1990 1^st QOMSBOC, Toronto, ON, Oct. 20

58^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Québec, QC, May 14-18

1989 197^th ACS National Meeting, Dallas, TX, Apr. 9-14

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INVITED SPEAKER

2007 Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Burnaby, BC Oct. 23

1^st International Conference on SFC, Pittsburgh, PA Sep. 23-25

234^th ACS Meeting, Boston, MA Aug. 19-23

OMCOS-14, Nara, Japan Aug. 2-6

AstraZeneca R&D Montréal, QC Jun. 20

Synthesis Day, Ottawa, ON Jun. 18

Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, NJ Jun. 14

8^th Symposium Carbanion Chemistry, UW-Madison, WI Jun. 6-10

90^th CSC Conference, Winnipeg, MB May 26-20

Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA May 11

Univ. of California-Santa Barbara, CA May 10

Univ. of Toronto, ON Feb. 21

GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, PA, Jan. 12

2006 Univ. Laval, Quebec City, QC, Dec. 15

Merck & Co., West Point, PA, Nov. 7

Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Oct. 3

Genentech Inc., San Francisco, CA, Sep. 15

89^th Gordon Conference, Newport, RI, June 18-23

CSC Conference, Halifax, NS, May 27-31

74^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, QC, May 15-19

Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, Feb. 27-Mar. 2

2005 Pacifichem 2005, Honolulu, HI, Dec. 15-20

University College London, UK, Dec. 6

Univ. of Cambridge, UK, Dec. 5

GlaxoSmithKline (Stevenage, Harlow, Tonbridge), UK, Dec. 1-2

McGill, Montréal, QC, Nov. 29

Miscellaneous lectures in France, Oct. 18-28

Merck Symposium, UC Irvine, CA, Sep. 17

230^th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, Aug. 28- Sep. 1

Gilead Sciences Inc., Foster City, CA, Jun. 16

88^th CSC Conference, Saskatoon, SK, May 28-Jun. 1

Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, MA, Apr. 25

Boston College, Boston, MA, Apr. 5

University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Jan. 26

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 24

2004 Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Dec. 3

Miscellaneous lectures in Europe, Nov. 14-22

NERM 2004 Symposium, Rochester, NY, Nov. 1-2

3^rd BI Meeting, Mont-Tremblant, QC, Oct. 18-20

Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Sep. 17

26^th Gulf Coast Conference, Pensacola Beach, FL, Sep. 9-11

IUPAC ICOS-15, Nagoya, Japan, Aug. 1-6

Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Jul. 8

Osaka Prefecture Univ., Osaka, Japan, Jul. 7

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, Jul. 6

ISIS 2004 Conference, Hyogo, Japan, Jul. 4-5

Univ. of Calgary, AB, Jun. 29

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Biberach, Germany, Jun. 15

FACS X, Charleston, SC, Jun. 6-10

North Jersey ACS Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, May 27

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Apr. 22

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, Mar. 3

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, Raritan, NJ, Feb. 6

2003 Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON, Nov. 28

Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands, Oct. 23-24

Paul Walden 3^rd Symposium, Riga, Latvia, Oct. 13-14

Gordon Conference, Bristol, RI, Jul. 20-25

Serono Reproductive Biology Institute, Rockland, MA Jun. 10

2002 COST D12 Workshop, Arcachon, France, Sep. 25-30

Novartis Chemistry Lectures in Europe, Sep. 20-25

Boehringer Ingelheim, Vienna, Austria, Aug. 23

Syngenta, Basel, Switzerland, Aug. 22

Schering-Plough Research Institute, Kenilworth, NJ, Jun. 20

Gordon Conference, Newport, RI, Jun. 9-14

AnorMED, Langley, BC, Jun. 6

85^th CSC Conference, Vancouver, BC, Jun. 1-6

223^rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, Apr. 7-11

Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, Apr. 4-5

Sepracor/IBC 3^rd Symposium, Naples, FL, Mar. 11-13

ETH Hönggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland, Jan. 30

Univ. Tünbingen, Germany, Jan. 22

Univ. Stuttgart, Germany, Jan. 21

2001 Univ. of Ottawa, ON, Nov. 16

Merck Frosst, Rahway, NJ, Nov. 7

DSM Research, Geleen, The Netherlands, Sep. 11

GECO 42, Batz-sur-Mer, France, Sep. 2-7

9^th Brazilian Meeting, Curitiba, Brazil, Aug. 20-24

Aventis, Bridgewaters, NJ, Jun. 20

École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, Apr. 27

Ludwig Maximilians Univ., Munich, Germany, Apr. 23

ICSN, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Apr. 5

Univ. D'Orsay, France, Apr. 3

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Apr. 2

Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, Mar. 19

Roche, Nutley, NJ, Feb. 8

Univ. Victoria, Victoria, BC, Jan. 18

2000 Pacifichem 2000, Honolulu, HI, Dec. 14-19

Wyeth-Ayerst, Pearl River, NY, Nov. 10

Medical Univ. of Beijing, China Oct. 16-26

Boehringer Ingelheim, Biberach, Germany, Sep. 26

Miscellaneous plenary lectures in Switzerland, Sep. 17-22

AstraZeneca, Montréal, QC, Aug. 2

Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT, Jul. 25

Boehringer Ingelheim, Laval, QC, Jun. 13

83^rd CSC Conference, Calgary, AB, May 27-31

Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, May 25

NNS Foundation of China, Beijing, China, May 11-22

35^th Euchem, Bürgenstock, Switzerland, Apr. 29-May 5

Pharmacia-Upjohn, Kalamazoo, MI, Apr. 2

Univ. of Minnesota, Rochester, MN, Mar. 24

Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, Mar. 23

Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, Mar. 10

1999 Merck Frosst, West Point, PA, Nov. 18

Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, Nov. 17

McGill Univ., Montréal, QC, Nov. 5

Univ. of Rochester, NY, Oct. 22

Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, Oct. 20

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, Oct. 5

Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, Oct. 4

BP Amoco Chemicals, Suburry, England, Jul. 1

Bio-Méga/BIR, Laval, QC, Jun. 17

82^nd CSC Conference, Toronto, ON, Jun. 2

BP Amoco Chemicals, Chicago, IL, May 20

67^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Ottawa, ON, May 10

SISOUM, Univ. de Montréal, QC, Apr. 15

Sepracor, Malborough, MA, Mar. 29

Tanabe Research Laboratories, San Diego, CA, Mar. 5

1998 Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, Nov. 30

York Univ., North York, ON, Nov. 19

McGill Univ., Montréal, QC, Nov. 5

8^th Symposium, Gainesville, FL, Oct. 28-Nov. 1

Univ. of Toronto, ON, Sep. 18

Univ. Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, Sep. 11

Symposium, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Jul. 5-8

81^st CSC Conference, Whistler, BC, May 31-Jun. 4

Syntex/Roche Symposium, Boulder, CO, May 20

66^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Québec, QC, May 12

Bio-Méga/BIR, Laval, QC, May 5

Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, Mar. 16

Univ. of California, Irvine, CA, Mar. 4

Ligand Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA, Mar. 3

Merck Frosst Canada, Kirkland, QC, Jan. 26

7^th IUPAC Symposium, Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 28-Jan. 2

1997 Entretiens Jacques Cartier, Lyon, France, Dec. 8-11

Univ. de Namur, Belgium, Dec. 5

Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Dec. 4

École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, Dec. 3

Société Française de chimie, Paris, France, Dec. 2

5^th Chemical Congress, Cancùn, Mexico, Nov. 11-15

Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT, Sep. 18

CIC Symposium, Waterloo, ON, June

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, May 20

Miscellaneous lectures in Switzerland, May

Merck Frosst, Rahway, NJ, Apr. 24

1996 Rohm & Haas, Spring House, PA, Dec. 5

Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Oct. 23

Pfizer, Groton, CT, Oct. 11

Gordon Conference, Holderness, NH, Jul. 7-12

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, May 29

64^e congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, QC, May 13-17

Abbott Symposium, Univ. of Chicago, IL, Apr. 29

Eli Lilly Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, Mar. 4-5

1995 Pacifichem 1995, Honolulu, HI, Dec. 17-22

Gordon Conference, Henniker, NH, Jul. 2-8

CIC Symposium, Waterloo, ON, June

McGill Univ., Montréal, QC, Jan. 10

1994 Univ. of Alberta, AB, Nov. 28

Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Nov. 25

Univ. of Victoria, BC, Oct. 27

École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, Jun. 30

ICSN, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Jun. 28

Eli Lilly Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, Jun. 20

Univ. of Rochester, NY, Mar. 25

Sandoz Research Institute, East Hanover, NJ, Feb. 7

1993 Univ. of Toronto, ON, Nov. 22

Gordon Conference, New Hampton, NH, Jul. 12-16

24^th NSF Workshop, Aspen, CO, Jun. 20-24

CIC Symposium, Sherbrooke, QC, May 31

205^th ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, Apr. 1

Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Jan. 27

1992 9^th IUPAC Symposium, Montréal, QC, Jul. 1

6 invitations prior to 1992

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COMMITTEES AND BOARDS

Industrial Consultations

Consultant, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, 2005-
Consultant, Bio-Méga/Boehringer Ingelheim, 1999-
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Micrologix Biotech, 2003-2004
Consultant, Teratechnologies, 2001-2002
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Silicycle, 1998-2001
Consultant, BP/Amoco, 1999-2000

Editorial Committees

Editor, Organic Reactions, 2001-
Editor, Revue Can. de chimie (Can. J. Chem., French edition), 1997-
Advisory Editorial Board Member, Synlett, Synthesis, 2007-
International Advisory Editorial Board Member, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2002-2006
Volume Editor, Science of Synthesis, Vol. 22, 2001-2005
Associate Editor, Molecules Online, 1997-1999
Editor, Encyclopedia of Reactions in Organic Synthesis, 1997-1999

Organizing Committees

Organizer, 15^e Entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier (Lyon) 2002
Executive Committee Member, CSC Organic Division 1999-2003
Organic Division Organizer, 84^th CSC Conference (Montréal) 2001
Symposium Organizer, Pacifichem (Honolulu) 2000
Organizer, 13^e Entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier (Montréal) 2000

Selection Committees

Member, NSERC Circle, 2001-
CRC Selection Committee Member, NSERC, 2000-2001
Grant Selection Committee Member, NSERC, 1999-2002
Grant Selection Committee Member, FCAR, 1998-1999, 2001-2002
Grant Selection Committee Member, FCAR Action Concertée, 1998
Grant Selection Committee Member, FCAR Équipe, 1994-1995
Grant Selection Committee Member, FCAR, 1993-1994

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Curriculum vitæ - Prof. Charette