"Creating your own company" session on November 8

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 November 8, 2016, from 8.30 to 10.30am in room 28-01-01A of the François Jacob building. The speaker will be Florence Séjourné.

Florence Séjourné has been Chief Executive Officer of Da Volterra for the past eight years. After completing studies in engineering and science, in 1999 Florence Séjourné co-founded Genfit, now one of the leading European companies in metabolic and inflammatory diseases, especially in the area of hepato-gastroenterology. Genfit has been listed on Euronext and valued at more than €500 million.

In 2008, she moved to Da Volterra, a biotech company created in 2000 which focuses on antibiotic resistance. Da Volterra aims to provide therapeutic solutions for use by doctors worldwide to combat bacterial infections and control the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, by developing a portfolio of drug candidates from fundamental research to proof of concept. Da Volterra's most advanced product, which began clinical trials in 2013, is designed to protect the gut microbiota from damage related to the use of antibiotics.

• To sign up (spaces are limited to a maximum of 20 people), please send an email to Lisa Riffaud by November 3.