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Founders: François Iris
Manuel Géa
Gérard Dine
Paul-Henri Lampe
Pablo Santamaria
Richard Piani

François Iris (Ph.D.): Chairman & Chief Science & Technology Officer

  • Geneticist, physiologist & molecular biologist.
  • Inventor of new technologies in molecular biology (over 30 patents).
  • Former Creator of Millennium Pharmaceuticals’ (USA) high-throughput  DNA sequencing unit.
  • Former co-founder and C.S.O. of ValiGen SA in Paris 
  • Former collaborator of Nobel Laureate Prof. Jean Dausset.
  • Member of H.U.G.O.
  • Member of the Wellcome Trust Systems biology Experts Board.
  • M.R.C. overseas fellow.

Manuel Gea: C.E.O. & VP Information Systems

  • Scientific Degree from Ecole Centrale Paris, Sociology Degree Paris IX University.
  • Vice President Biotech Committee of the Association of the Pharma companies operating France (Leem ex-SNIP).
  • Member of the Association of Biotech-Pharma companies operating in France (Amgen, Biogen, Serono, Actelion, Genzyme. Gilead, Bio-Modeling Systems).
  • Founder and President of Centrale-Santé (Major healthcare and biotech Think-Tank).
  • Vice-President "Ecole Centrale's Alumni Association".
  • Founding-Administrator of the computing firm Formitel,
  • Co-founder and evaluation committee’s member of Paris Biotech (leading biotech incubator).
  • Former: CEO Hemispherx Biopharma Europe, McKinsey's Practice Pharma creator for France, Business Unit Managing Director with Boehringer-Ingelheim France, International Business Manager at Colgate Palmolive.

Gérard Dine (M.D.; Ph.D.): Chief Medical Officer

  • Physician. Head of the Haematology Dept. at Troye's hospital.
  • Founding member and head of the Biotechnology Dept. at Ecole Centrale de Paris.
  • Founding-President of Troye's Institute of Biotechnology.
  • Former President of the Institute for Sports Medicine.

Paul-Henri Lampe: Bioinformatics & Systems Integration Director

  • Systems Engineering & Systems Integration specialist.
  • Scientific Engineering Degree from Ecole Centrale Lille
  • Master Degree in Applied Mathematics form Ecole Central Paris
  • Former IBM Systems Integration Manager.
  • Information Systems projects manager in an Acute Care Hospital in Paris

Pablo Santamaria: I.T. & On-line Information Systems Director

  • Scientific Degree from Ecole Centrale Paris
  • Founding-President of the computing firm Formitel (1988)
  • Founding President of the Centrale-Ethics Think-Tank
  • Vice-President of Centrale Human Ressources Professional group
  • Former Senior Consultant Information Systems Evaluation (INSEP)
  • Former Industrial Maintenance Manager at Glaxo Pharma ( Evreux, France)

Richard Piani: Business Strategy, Legal affairs

  • Law degree from La Sorbonne, Paris, and Business Administration degree from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris.
  • Former Principal Delegate for Industry to the City of Sciences and Industry, Paris.
  • Former Chairman of "Industrielle du Batiment-Morin", a building materials corporation,
  • Former Professor of International Strategy at Paris Dauphine University
  • Former Group Director in Charge of International and Commercial Affairs at Rhone-Poulenc.
  • Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of “La Cellophane”, the French company who invented cellophane and several other products used worldwide.

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