Upcoming "Creating your own company" session on May 3, 2016

Every month, the Education Department, the MAASCC welcome and support structure for contract researchers and the Research Applications and Industrial Relations Department run an event offering scientists interested in business development the chance to meet a leading figure and entrepreneur in the area of biotechnology. The aim is to encourage those interested in setting up their own company.

This event, entitled "Creating your own company", takes the form of a breakfast meeting on the first Tuesday of each month.

The next session will take place on Tuesday May 3 from 8.30 to 10.30am in room 28-01-01A of the François Jacob building.

The speaker will be Philippe Pouletty, co-founder and Managing Director of Truffle Capital, a leading European venture capital company. Philippe Pouletty has carved out a fascinating career in biotechnology, entrepreneurship and business development, holding a variety of different posts as a doctor, scientist, entrepreneur and investor.

Philippe Pouletty is the inventor of 29 patents. He founded three biotechnology companies in Europe and the United States, two of which are listed on the stock exchange: SangStat, set up in 1988, and Conjuchem, set up in 1993. He also discovered a technique for gene amplification using reverse transcriptase and RNA polymerase which became one of Stanford University's highest revenue-generating technologies. From 2001 to 2009, Philippe Pouletty was Head of France Biotech, the French association for biotechnology companies, and he is also a former Vice-Chairman of Europabio, the European biotechnology federation.

At the "Creating your own company" session on May 3, Philippe Pouletty will speak about the strategy adopted by Truffle Capital, a major investment fund, in the fields of life sciences, energy and information technology.

• To sign up, please send an email to Lisa Riffaud. Note that there are just 20 spaces available and the deadline for registration is April 26.