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“I specialised in cutaneous pharmacology during
my Master's at the Université Lyon I. I loved it because
researchers from around the world would come to give us lectures.
I then wrote a thesis on cutaneous absorption at the Université
Paris Sud. This is the study of the absorption of products through
the skin, some of which can have harmful effects on the body.
My subject was studying the penetration of different products
into the skin with new predictive methodologies. Some criteria
allow us to find out whether or not a product is likely to penetrate
the skin, but many studies have shown that they are not accurate
enough. I tried to improve this by developing new mathematical
models which, without the need of laboratory experiments, allow
us to find out whether or not products are likely to cross the
cutaneous barrier.
All
these predictive methodologies are very important because
animal testing has been banned since 2013 in cosmetics. For many
years, numerous alternative methods have been developed; not
being much of a fan of animal testing (despite the fact that
I really enjoy medical research in dermatology), I seem to have
arrived at a good time. It is important to be quite creative
and inventive in order to find methodologies which give results,
using skin created in a laboratory or waste from plastic surgery.
Today, I work in the cosmetics industry – still in the field
of cutaneous absorption. I see how skin molecules behave, with
the aim of obtaining results for products to be developed in
cosmetology.” |
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