Françoise Debart obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Montpellier in 1989 in the laboratory of Prof. J.-L. Imbach. In the same year, she joined the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) as an Associate Researcher. From 1990 to 1992, she was a post-doctoral fellow at IONIS Pharmaceuticals (California, USA) in the field of antisense oligonucleotides. She then moved back to Montpellier in Imbach’s group and she worked on backbone-modified DNA oligonucleotides. Since 2011, she has been a Research Director at the Institute of Biomolecules Max Mousseron (IBMM). For around 15 years, her research interests focused on the synthesis of modified ribonucleosides and RNA oligonucleotides as valuable tools for therapeutic applications and for understanding the RNA machinery. Her expertise in RNA chemistry is well renown and makes her involved in many pluridisciplinary projects in the field of emerging viruses, epitranscriptomics, RNA arrays…