She was awarded the 2021 Société chimique de France Achille le Bel Grand Prize.
Caminade was a doctoral researcher at Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University.
[2] She moved to Saarland University as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Michael Veith.
By incorporating phosphorus into functionalised dendrimers (where phosphorus atoms are included at every branching point) and manipulating the internal structure, Caminade has shown them to be useful for anti-inflammatory medications and anti-cancer treatments.
[citation needed] In 2006 Caminade was appointed leader of the French National Centre for Scientific Research “Molecular and supramolecular heterochemistry” team.