Upcoming "Creating your own company" session on April 3

The Institut Pasteur organizes a monthly meeting with one or more entrepreneurs in the field of life sciences. These events are aimed at PhD students, postdocs, researchers and engineers interested in technology transfer and entrepreneurship.

These events, entitled "Creating your own company", take the form of a breakfast meeting on the first Tuesday of each month.

The next session of creating your own company will take place on April 3 , at 10.30 am. (28-01-01 B meeting room). We will welcome Bernard Gilly, head of iBionext, a unique start-up studio and investment fund in Paris and CEO of Gensight biologics.

Bernard Gilly has a truly impressive experience in the field of biotech as an entrepreneur, investor and CEO. He launched the iBionext ecosystem in 2012 by successfully co-founding several high potential healthcare start-ups. He is currently non-executive chairman of five companies and CEO of GenSight Biologics.

Over the past six years, iBionext has created 8 companies that have raised more than € 350 million.

Prior to that, Bernard was Chairman and CEO of Fovea Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company he founded in 2005 and sold to Sanofi in 2009 for €370m before becoming Senior VP of the Ophthalmology Division of Sanofi until 2012.

From 2000 to 2005, Bernard was a Partner at Sofinnova Partners. Prior to joining Sofinnova, Bernard was President and CEO of Transgene, a company he drove from its early financing round in 1994 to its dual listing on the Nasdaq and the Nouveau Marché (Now Euronext-C) in1998, successfully raising €160m.
Before Transgene, Bernard spent 6 years as VP R&D at Pasteur-Mérieux-Connaught, now Sanofi Pasteur.
 
Come and meet one of the leaders in the French biotech world !

To sign up, please send an email to Dominique Franco (dominique.franco@pasteur.fr).