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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
29363
World Ranking
1573
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2000 - Polish Academy of Science
  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jean-Pierre Majoral is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans multiple fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and materials science, with notable contributions in molecular biology and polymers and plastics.

Their work prominently focuses on dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers, encompassing a wide range of topics including RNA interference and gene delivery, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, nanoparticle-based drug delivery, chemical synthesis and analysis, and extracellular vesicles in disease.

Frequent co-authors throughout their career include Serge Mignani, Xiangyang Shi, Mingwu Shen, Mengsi Zhan, and Régis Laurent. These collaborations reflect a multidisciplinary approach in biomedical engineering and organic chemistry contexts.

Typical venues for their publications include:

  • Biomacromolecules
  • Pharmaceutics
  • Advanced Materials
  • European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • ACS Nano

Selected recent publications are:

  • Chemotherapy Mediated by Biomimetic Polymeric Nanoparticles Potentiates Enhanced Tumor Immunotherapy via Amplification of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Superstructured poly(amidoamine) dendrimer-based nanoconstructs as platforms for cancer nanomedicine: A concise review, 2020, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Non-invasive intranasal administration route directly to the brain using dendrimer nanoplatforms: An opportunity to develop new CNS drugs, 2020, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Phosphorous Dendron Micelles as a Nanomedicine Platform for Cooperative Tumor Chemoimmunotherapy via Synergistic Modulation of Immune Cells, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Revisiting Cationic Phosphorus Dendrimers as a Nonviral Vector for Optimized Gene Delivery Toward Cancer Therapy Applications, 2020, Biomacromolecules

Jean-Pierre Majoral has been recognized with awards including membership in the Academia Europaea since 1999 and recognition from the Polish Academy of Science in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Dendrimers containing heteroatoms (si, p, B, ge, or bi).

    Jean-Pierre Majoral;Anne-Marie Caminade

  • A General Synthetic Strategy for Neutral Phosphorus‐Containing Dendrimers

    Nathalie Launay;Anne-Marie Caminade;Roger Lahana;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • Construction of iron oxide nanoparticle-based hybrid platforms for tumor imaging and therapy

    Yong Hu;Serge Mignani;Jean-Pierre Majoral;Mingwu Shen

  • Expand classical drug administration ways by emerging routes using dendrimer drug delivery systems: a concise overview.

    Serge Mignani;Saïd El Kazzouli;Mosto Bousmina;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • Characterization of dendrimers.

    Anne-Marie Caminade;Régis Laurent;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • Regioselective stepwise growth of dendrimer units in the internal voids of a main dendrimer

    Christophe Galliot;Christophe Larré;Anne-Marie Caminade;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • PREPARATION OF WATER-SOLUBLE CATIONIC PHOSPHORUS-CONTAINING DENDRIMERS AS DNA TRANSFECTING AGENTS

    Christophe Loup;Maria-Antonietta Zanta;Anne-Marie Caminade;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • Synthesis of Phosphorus-Containing Macrocycles and Cryptands

    Anne-Marie Caminade;Jean Pierre Majoral

  • Nanomaterials based on phosphorus dendrimers.

    Anne-Marie Caminade;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • Enhanced catalytic properties of copper in O- and N-arylation and vinylation reactions, using phosphorus dendrimers as ligands.

    Armelle Ouali;Régis Laurent;Anne-Marie Caminade;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • A Phosphorus-Based Dendrimer Targets Inflammation and Osteoclastogenesis in Experimental Arthritis

    Myriam Hayder;Mary Poupot;Michel Baron;Michel Baron;Michel Baron;Delphine Nigon

  • Dendrimeric coating of glass slides for sensitive DNA microarrays analysis

    Véronique Le Berre;Emmanuelle Trévisiol;Adilia Dagkessamanskaia;Serguei Sokol

  • DENDRIMER SURFACE CHEMISTRY. FACILE ROUTE TO POLYPHOSPHINES AND THEIR GOLD COMPLEXES

    Michael Slany;Manuel Bardaji;Marie-Josee Casanove;Anne-Marie Caminade

  • Synthesis and Reactivity of Unusual Phosphorus Dendrimers. A Useful Divergent Growth Approach Up to the Seventh Generation

    Nathalie Launay;Anne-Marie Caminade;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • Synthesis of bowl-shaped dendrimers from generation 1 to generation 8

    Nathalie Launay;Anne-Marie Caminade;Jean Pierre Majoral

  • Cationic phosphorus-containing dendrimers reduce prion replication both in cell culture and in mice infected with scrapie.

    Jérôme Solassol;Carole Crozet;Véronique Perrier;Julien Leclaire

  • Dendrimers and nanomedicine: multivalency in action

    Olivier Rolland;Cédric-Olivier Turrin;Anne-Marie Caminade;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • Designing dendrimers for ocular drug delivery.

    Grégory Spataro;François Malecaze;Cédric-Olivier Turrin;Cédric-Olivier Turrin;Vincent Soler

  • Dendrimeric phosphines in asymmetric catalysis

    Anne-Marie Caminade;Paul Servin;Régis Laurent;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • Dendrimers in combination with natural products and analogues as anti-cancer agents

    Serge M. Mignani;João C. Rodrigues;João C. Rodrigues;H. Tomás;Maria Zabłocka

  • Simultaneous excitation of propagating and localized surface plasmon resonance in nanoporous gold membranes

    Fang Yu;Stefanie Ahl;Anne-Marie Caminade;Jean-Pierre Majoral

  • Large Dipole Moments of Phosphorus-Containing Dendrimers

    Marie-Laure Lartigue;Bruno Donnadieu;Christophe Galliot;and Anne-Marie Caminade

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne-Marie Caminade
Anne-Marie Caminade Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Maria Bryszewska
Maria Bryszewska University of Łódź
Bruno Donnadieu
Bruno Donnadieu University of California, Riverside
Serge Mignani
Serge Mignani Universidade da Madeira
Guy Bertrand
Guy Bertrand University of California, San Diego
Victorio Cadierno
Victorio Cadierno University of Oviedo
Françoise Dahan
Françoise Dahan Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Wolfgang Knoll
Wolfgang Knoll Austrian Institute of Technology
Antoine Baceiredo
Antoine Baceiredo Paul Sabatier University
Xiangyang Shi
Xiangyang Shi Donghua University

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