Come along to the "Creating your own company" session on June 6

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 of Creating your own company will take place June 6, at 8.30 a.m (room 28-01-01A, François Jacob center). The speaker of this session will be David Bikard, head of the Synthetic Biology G5 lab at the Institut Pasteur and co-founder of Eligo Bioscience, a start-up created in 2014 and incubated at the institute.

Eligo Bioscience is developing a new class of targeted biotherapeutic agents to selectively intervene on the microbiome. The company uses synthetic biology, protein engineering and the CRISPR/Cas technology to deal with targeted microbial populations.
Eligo Bioscience has raised several millions € from investors and is laureate of the worldwide Innovation challenge.

David Bikard combines his activity at the head of a lab at the Institut Pasteur and the role of Chief Scientific Director of Eligo, illustrating the possibility to combine academic research and entrepreneurship.

Come and meet a young scientist and entrepreneur in a very promising field !

To sign up, please send an email to marie-laure.goupil@pasteur.fr.