"Creating your own company" session on October 3

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 October 3, at 8.30 a.m (room 28-01-01A, François Jacob center). The speaker of this session will be Franck Mouthon.

Franck Mouthon is the CEO and founder of Theranexus, a biotechnology company created in 2013. After studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), University Pierre & Marie Curie and Institut Pasteur and several years as a researcher in the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), working on the central nervous system, Franck Mouton founded Theranexus in 2013.

Theranexus capitalizes on the prominent role non-neuronal cells play in neuron activity to design and develop groundbreaking drugs that act simultaneously on both cell types within the brain. Its clinical objective is to provide innovative and effective therapeutic solutions for the treatment of neurological disorders. Theranexus has raised more than € 3 million in the end of 2014

Franck Mouthon is also a member of the Board of France Biotech, a non-governmental organization of French entrepreneurs in life sciences, whose aim is to promote the development of innovation in health.
 
Come and listen to a fascinating entrepreneur !

• To sign up, please send an email to de Dominique Franco (dominique.franco@pasteur.fr) ou Simon Legendre (simon.legendre@pasteur.fr)