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Dr Mohammed Ahmar obtained his PhD from the University of Lyon in 1986 under the supervision of Prof Jacques Goré. Appointed as Lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Lyon, he joined in 1988 the Robert Bloch’s group of the Laboratoire des Carbocycles (University Paris-Sud Orsay) as CNRS fellow, then Dr. Ian Fleming’s group in Cambridge, UK (1991-1992). Back to Lyon in 1994, he joined the Laboratoire de Chimie Organique I, working with Bernard Cazes. In 2011 he joined the Organic and Bio-Organic Chemistry team of ICBMS working with Yves Queneau on glycosciences at the interface with bio-based chemistry.