Dr. Sylvie Ricard-Blum is Professor of Biochemistry at the University Lyon 1, Deputy director of the Interdisciplinary Sciences and Health Doctoral School of the University Lyon 1, and Coordinator of the Master programme in Biochemistry of the University Lyon 1.  She was President of the French Society for Matrix Biology for 5 years and is still associated to the Council of this Society. She is a member of the Council of the International Society for Matrix Biology and Vice-chair of the Molecular Interactions group of HUPO-Proteomics Standards  Initiative. She is the leader of a research team working on extracellular matrix interaction networks and on pericellular and extracellular supramolecular assemblies in the Institute of Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry and Biochemistry in Lyon (France).